- Aristocracy (Social class), British, Fiction, France
Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon, ' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well.I was looking at myself."Two men--one English, the other French--meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are astounded that they are so much alike that they could easily pass for each other.
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Classical in form and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Daphne du Maurier
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 348
- Publisher
- Albatros, Book Club, Doubleday of Canada
- Editions
- 63
- Language
- French, Russian, und, English
- ISBN
- 9781548009182
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“I left the car by the side of the cathedral, and then walked down the steps into the Place des Jacobins.”
Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, the second of three daughters of Muriel Beaumont, an actress and maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont, and Sir Gerald du Maurier, the prominent actor-manager, son of the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. She was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, she met many of the brightest stars of the theatre, thanks to the celebrity of her father. These connections helped her in establishing her literary career
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