5/19/2023 0 Comments Daphne du maurier trilbyIt was the figure of a very tall and fully developed young female, clad in the gray overcoat of a French infantry soldier, continued netherwards by a short striped petticoat, beneath which were visible her bare white ankles and insteps, and slim, straight, rosy heels, clean cut and smooth as the back of a razor her toes lost themselves in a huge pair of male list slippers, which made her drag her feet as she walked. Talk about limiting your demographic… Trilby In this novel – which admittedly is almost 500 pages long – George du Maurier manages to insult just about every type of person in the world who is not an English male between 25 and 45. PS: Besides being 'racy', Trilby introduced the phrase 'in the altogether', meaning 'nude'. Here's a sample of the book, which you can read at. If you'd like to see a pretty good one from 1931, John Barrymore's Svengali is a really good Expressionist film. (And yes, the character is antisemitic, so we wouldn't let du Maurier get away with it today.) The term 'Svengali' became a catchphrase for a sort of manipulative behind-the-scenes power broker. It became famous for its portrayal of 'bohemian' artists in Paris and for its sinister character Svengali. In 1894, Daphne du Maurier's grandfather George wrote a runaway bestseller called Trilby. Trilby and Svengali: or, How to Be So Un-Woke You Write in a Coma
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