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| Title | : | The House on the Strand |
| Author | : | Daphne du Maurier |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | December 17th 2013 by Little, Brown and Company (first published 1969) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Science Fiction. Time Travel. Fantasy. Mystery |
Daphne du Maurier
ebook | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.84 | 9092 Users | 938 Reviews
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Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wear off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda...
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| Original Title: | The House on the Strand |
| ISBN: | 0316252999 (ISBN13: 9780316252997) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Cornwall, England(United Kingdom) |
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Ratings: 3.84 From 9092 Users | 938 ReviewsEvaluate Of Books The House on the Strand
Daphne du Maurier wrote a novel with time travel in it and you guys didn't even tell me.3.5 stars.
Daphne du Maurier writes very deep books that masquerade as mystery/romances. No two are alike, and in this novel she steps into the world of time travel (or maybe she doesnt). After all, have you ever read a du Maurier that didnt pose more questions than it answered?We are taken into the world of Richard Young, a man who has reached a crossroads in life and is contemplating what his next step is going to be. His best friend, Magnus, a bit of a mad scientist, has loaned Richard his home in
Quite a few of Daphne du Maurier's novels and short stories have been made into films, and this is how many people have come to discover her work. The House on the Strand is one of her lesser-known novels; the penultimate novel by Daphne du Maurier from 1969. It is an unusual work about time travel and mind-expanding drugs; themes which could be thought of as apposite for the time.The author thrusts us straight into the action with a beautifully written and vividly descriptive episode. The
"We are all bound, one to the other, through time and eternity"While vacationing at the Cornwall home of old chum Magnus, Richard Young is convinced to act as guinea pig for his friend's latest experiment - a drug that enables the mind to travel into the past - although the body stays in the present. Richard's "trips" take him to the 14C where he is soon so wrapped up in the past that it becomes as addictive to him as a drug - or is it the drug itself that is addictive? Are the lives of those in
A wonderful haunting tale of time travel...Highly recommended..Will surely be reading more of Daphne Du Maurier's stories..
I was one of them, and they did not know it. I belonged amongst them, and they did not know it. This, I think, was the essence of what it meant to me. To be bound, yet free; to be alone, yet in their company; to be born in my own time yet living, unknown, in theirs. du Maurier's tale of morbid obsession is several things: a gloomy treatise on addiction and how it disintegrates the world of the addicted; a romantic paean to Tywardreath in Cornwall, close to where the author herself lived; a
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