![]() ![]() ![]() Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. George Du Maurier was a celebrated caricaturist for Punch magazine and his drawings for the novel form part of its appeal - this edition includes his most significant illustrations.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. The setting of the story reflects the author's bohemian years as an art student in Paris indeed James McNeill Whistler was to recognize himself in one of the early serialized instalments. He would seem to have damned Daphne before her birth, but his Trilby is not a. Immensely popular for a number of years, the novel led to a hit play, a series of popular films, and the trilby hat. He hated feminists and female sensation novelists of the sort Daphne du. ![]() A cause celebre when it was published, Trilby is a terrific account of bohem. 'You shall see nothing, hear nothing, think of nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali!'įirst published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mesmeric mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of the time alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes. From Daphne Du Mauriers father comes this beautiful Fin-de-Sicle novel. ![]()
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