Originally published in Household World in 1855 as 'The Ostler', but recast and expanded two decades later, The Dream Woman is a powerfully dark and suspenseful multi-narrative novella from the master of the mystery genre and the author of some of the most enduringly popular novels of the Victorian era.
Hollywood's obsession with the tale of American greed, justice, religion and sexual hypocrisy stretches across the history of cinema. This title studies this extraordinary sequence of adaptations. It reveals a history of Hollywood of American culture and the difficulty of telling an American tragedy in the land of the American dream.
This title brings into sharp focus the merger of celebrity, corporate, power, government and empire which has become an essential part of America's belief in itself as a nation.