Trilby

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You shall see nothing hear nothing think of nothing but Svengali Svengali Svengali! First published in 1894 the story of the diva Trilby OFerrall & her mesmeric mentor Svengali has entered the mythology of the time alongside Dracula & Sherlock Holmes. Immensely popular for a number of years the novel led to a hit play a series of popular films & the trilby hat. The setting of the story reflects the authors bohemian years as an art student in Paris; indeed James Mc Neill Whistler was to recognize himself in one of the early serialized instalments. George Du Maurier was a celebrated caricaturist for Punch magazine & his drawings for the novel form part of its appeal
- this edition

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