In the Latin Quarter three British painters, Taffy, the Laird and Little Billee, adopt Trilby O’Ferrall, a warm-hearted, tone-deaf artist’s model. The musician Svengali has other plans for her, and his hypnotic power turns her into a celebrated singer. Du Maurier illustrated the novel himself. Svengali is drawn as an antisemitic caricature, an attitude typical of 1894.
A huge sensation in its day that gave English the words ‘Svengali’ and the trilby hat. Download the free EPUB.