One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

George Du Maurier

5 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

George Du Maurier

GEORGE LOUIS PALMELLA BUSSON DU MAURIER was born in Paris in 1834, and died in England in 1896. His father, a naturalized British subject…

George Du Maurier: Paris

The year 1856 found him in Paris, in the Latin Quarter, a student at "the core of the art world" of which in "Trilby" he produced a…

George Du Maurier: Billie

On a showery April day the three friends were in the studio, each occupied to his taste, Taffy vigorously swinging a pair of Indian clubs…

George Du Maurier: Svengali

Svengali at once suggested that they have some music, and, seating himself at the piano, ran his fingers up and down the keys with the easy…

George Du Maurier: Gecko

One night they attended a concert in a large hall on the Rue St.-Honore. The first violin had scarcely taken his seat before they…

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