Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades Lizzie Thomas, a secretary at a…
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long,…
After the horror of the Civil War, ‘ignorant’ Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won’t get past the Paris nightlife. After…