Trilby (Oxford World's Classics)
George Du Maurier
Language: English
Pages: 368
ISBN: 0199538808
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of that period alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes. Immensely popular for years, the novel led to a hit play, a series of popular films, Trilby products from hats to ice-cream, and streets in Florida named after characters in the book. The setting reflects Du Maurier's bohemian years as an art student in Paris before he went to London to make a career in journalism. A celebrated caricaturist for Punch magazine, Du Maurier's drawings for the novel--of which his most significant are included here--form a large part of its appeal.
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The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
made it bleed, and Little Billee hit out like a fury, but with no effect: he couldn’t reach high enough, for Svengali was well over six feet. There was a crowd round them in a minute, including the beautiful old man in the court suit and gold chain, who called out: ‘Vite! vite! un commissaire de police!’ – a cry that was echoed all over the place. Taffy saw the row, and shouted, ‘Bravo, little ’un!’ and jumping up from his table, jostled his way through the crowd; and Little Billee, bleeding
he was not mistaken. But he had, for hours, the feel of that long, thick, shapely Hebrew nose being kneaded between his gloved knuckles, and a pleasing sense of the effectiveness of the tweak he had given it. So he went about chewing the cud of that heavenly remembrance all day, till reflection brought remorse, and he felt sorry; for he was really the mildest-mannered man that ever broke a head! Only the sight of Little Billee’s blood (which had been made to flow by such an unequal antagonist)
Harrow (where their father was before them), and the third is safe at a preparatory school at Elstree, Herts. It is their first outing since the honeymoon, and the Laird should have come with them. But the good Laird of Cockpen (who is now a famous Royal Academician) is preparing for a honeymoon of his own. He has gone to Scotland to be married himself – to wed a fair and clever countrywoman of just a suitable age, for he has known her ever since she was a bright little lassie in short frocks,
p. 17; cf. Weintraub, op. cit., ch. 32, ‘L’Affaire Trilby’. ∗Glossary. Pioupiou (alias pousse-caillou, alias tourlourou) – a private soldier of the line. Zouzou – a Zouave. Nounou – a wet-nurse with a pretty ribboned cap and long streamers. Toutou – a nondescript French lapdog, of no breed known to Englishmen (a regular little beast!). Loulou – a Pomeranian dog – not much better.
tears back. She sang the verse a second time, with but little added expression and no louder; but with a sort of breathy widening of her voice that made it like a broad heavenly smile of universal motherhood turned into sound. One felt all the genial gaiety and grace and impishness of Pierrot and Columbine idealized into frolicsome beauty and holy innocence, as though they were performing for the saints in Paradise – a baby Columbine, with a cherub for clown! The dream of it all came over you
