Flush with $400,000 dollars from selling his great great grandfather's correspondence with Victorian authors, Larry Dickerson, retired bank clerk, amateur editor, and literary neophyte, needs a creative outlet for his newly acquired funds and quickly escalating love of all things bookish.

N. John Hall is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Bronx Community College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Twice a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, he is considered one of the world¿s leading authorities on Anthony Trollope and Max Beerbohm