Advantages: Excellent reads Disadvantages: Only if you don't read any!
DaphneduMaurier was a true when it comes to novelists. She had written some of the best books of her time which continues to be a source of enjoyment for readers all over the world. Perhaps her most well known books are Rebecca, Jamaica Inn and Frenchman's Creek but there are so many more novels and short stories to enjoy. Her first novel was The Loving Spirit, a story about one Cornish family through many generations and their fight to survive while making a living from building boats.
In contrast, her last book, The House on the Strand is about a man who begins taking some kind of drug which enables him to go into the past where he learns about Cornwall from many years ago. Both of these books would make excellent films - I have no idea why they haven't been snatched up. Everyone should read at least one duMaurier book! ...
Advantages: One of the best authors of the 20th century Disadvantages: None
Any one who has read my book reviews will now just how much I enjoy the work of DaphneDuMaurier - 'Rebecca' has to be in the running for my most favourite book ever.
When you hear of her background it is not really surprising that she became such a great novelist.
Born on 13th May1907 in London into an artistic and prosperous family, she had two sisters - Angela and Jeanne - she was the second daughter and her father,who had wanted a son, encouraged her to dress like a boy, cut her hair short, and adopt an alter ego she named "Eric Avon."
Her father was in fact, Sir Gerald duMaurier - an actor and a manager who later became a writer, one of his works was 'Svengali and Trilby' - DuMaurier actually creating the mad hypnotist, Svengali.
Daphne's mother was also an actress - Muriel Beaumont, and her grandfather was ...
Advantages: One you can read time after time Disadvantages: None
"The Scapegoat" is one of duMaurier's lesser known works, over-shadowed by the hugely successful "Rebecca" and "Jamaica Inn". Some of her short stories have also been made into films - notably "Don't Look Now" and "The Birds".
*** The Plot ***
The story starts with the main character, known to us only as John, who is nearing the end of his holiday in France. He is a lecturer in French history, with no family, no ties and nothing to give him any kind of purpose in life. He is desperately trying to find a way to carry on with his seemingly meaningless life, and is toying with the idea of visiting the Abbaye de la Grande-Trappe, which is a monastery where he hopes he can find something to believe in and give him the courage to go on living.
As he walks into the station buffet, he meets a man who is his double. This is Count ...
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EAN
9781844080977
Type
Fiction
Genre
Modern Fiction
Publisher
Little Brown Book Group
Title
The Scapegoat
Author
Daphne Du Maurier
ISBN
1844080978
Manufacturer's product description
By chance two men - one English the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Their physical resemblance is uncanny and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John the Englishman falls into a drunken stupour. It's to be his last carefree moment for when he wakes his French companion has stolen his identity and disappeared. So John steps into the Frenchman's shoes and faces a variety of perplexing roles - as owner of a chateau director of a failing business head of a fractious family and master of nothing. Gripping and complex The Scapegoat is a masterful exploration of doubling and identity and of the dark side of the self.
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