TRILBY, A Novel (1896), WITH 121 ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR

Apparently where the name of the hat (a trilby) comes from.

TITLE TRILBY, A Novel (1896), WITH 121 ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR This is a scanned copy of the original book containing both searchable text and the original graphics. It is provided as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, you can search for names, places and items which may not be in the index. It can also be purchased at a reduced price from lulu.com as a downloadable PDF eBook.

AUTHOR George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a French-born British author and cartoonist.

PUBLISHED LONDON, OSGOOD, MCILVAINE & CO., 45 ALBEMARLE STREET, W., MDCCCXCVI

DESCRIPTION Trilby is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Trilby is set in the 1850s in an idyllic bohemian Paris. Though it features the hijinks of three lovable English artists — especially the delicate genius Little Billee — its most memorable character is Svengali, a Jewish rogue, a masterful musician, and an irresistible hypnotist. Trilby O’Ferrall, the novel’s heroine, is a magnificent half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artists’ model and laundress; all the men in the novel are in love with her. The relation between Trilby and Svengali forms only a small portion of the novel, which is mainly an evocation of a milieu, but it is a crucial one. (source Wikipedia)

LANGUAGE: English

SAMPLE You can examine a sample of the book in PDF form here.

PROVISION This eBook is provided as a searchable PDF document (Acrobat format Document) and so you can search for names, places and items many of which are not indexed in the normal index. The Adobe™ Acrobat™ (.pdf) format requires the FREE Adobe™ Acrobat™ Reader . Download and installation instructions for the Adobe™ Acrobat™ Reader are on the Adobe™ website. This reader allows the viewing and printing of the book. There are 447 pages in the original book. There is one PDF file, in black and white. 003934.pdf. This is the main body of the book. This file is approximately 48MB.

This is a scanned copy of the original book containing both searchable text and the original graphics. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. The text interpretation by optical scanning of the document may not be a precise interpretation of the written text. Users should refer to the scanned image to validate the interpretation of the material.

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This page created 14/03/2008 last updated 14/03/2008.

The Raiders 1894, being some passages in the Life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt

TITLE The Raiders 1894, being some passages in the Life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt This is a scanned copy of the original book containing both searchable text and the original graphics. It is provided as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, you can search for names, places and items which may not be in the index. It can also be purchased at a reduced price from lulu.com as a downloadable PDF eBook.

AUTHOR Rev, Samuel Rutherford CROCKETT (M: 1860 Sep 24 – 1914 Apr 21), Samuel Rutherford Crockett (September 24, 1860 – April 16, 1914), was a Scottish novelist, born at Duchrae, Galloway, the son of a Galloway farmer. See wikipedia.

PUBLISHED T Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Sq. London

DESCRIPTION THE RAIDERS, Being, Some Passages in the Life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt: BY S. R. Crockett FOURTH EDITION “The Scotch seem to be exerting themselves nobly in fiction. We have Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Barrie, and now Mr. Crockett, in * The Raiders,’ is making both of these authors look to their laurels. . . . ‘ The Raiders’ is a book difficult to lay down, a delightful book of adventure in a field untrodden by romance, in the wild, wild kingdom of Galloway. . . . Here we have a thoroughly enjoyable novel, full of fresh, original, and accurate pictures of life long gone by.” ” This is a book of full and rich texture, abounding in delightful incident and charming description, and wrought throughout with art and style.” Foreward: I, Patrick Heron of Isle Rathan in Galloway’, begin the writing of my book with thanks to God, the Giver of all good, for the early and bountiful harvest which He has been pleased to give us here in little Scotland, in this year of His Grace, 17—. It is not the least of the Lord’s mercies that throughout all this realm, both hill-land and valley-land, the crops of corn, Merse wheat, Lowden oats, and Galloway bear, should be in the stackyards under thack and rape by the second day of September. So, with a long back-end before me, the mind running easy about the corn, and prices rising, I am not likely to get a better season of quiet to write down the things that befell us in those strange years when the hill outlaws collogued with the wild freetraders of the Holland traffic, and fell upon us to the destruction of the life of man, the carrying away of much bestial, besides the putting of many of His Majesty’s lieges in fear Now it will appear that there are many things in this long story which I shall have to tell concerning my self which are far from doing me credit, but let it not be forgotten that it was with me the time of wild oat sowing when the blood ran warm. Also these were the graceless, unhallowed days after the Great Killing, when the saints of God had disappeared from the hills of Galloway and Carrick, and when the fastnesses of the utmost hills were held by a set of wild cairds—cattle reivers and murderers, worse than the painted savages of whom navigators to the far seas bring us word. It was with May Mischief that all the terrible blast of storm began (as indeed most storms among men ever do begin with a bonny lass, like that concerning Helen of Troy, which lasted ten year and of which men speak to this day). The tale began with May Mischief as you shall hear. I keep the old name stilly though the years have gone by, and though now in any talks of the old days and of all our ancient ploys, there are the bairns to be considered. But it is necessary that ere the memory quite die out, some one of us who saw these things should write them down. Some, it is true, were deeper in than I, but none saw more or clearer, being so to speak at both the inception and the conclusion of the matter.

LANGUAGE: English

SAMPLE You can examine a sample of the book in PDF form here.

PROVISION This eBook is provided as a searchable PDF document (Acrobat format Document) and so you can search for names, places and items many of which are not indexed in the normal index. The Adobe™ Acrobat™ (.pdf) format requires the FREE Adobe™ Acrobat™ Reader . Download and installation instructions for the Adobe™ Acrobat™ Reader are on the Adobe™ website. This reader allows the viewing and printing of the book. There are 409 pages in the original book. There is one PDF file, in black and white. 000921.pdf. This is the main body of the book. This file is approximately 42MB.

This is a scanned copy of the original book containing both searchable text and the original graphics. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. The text interpretation by optical scanning of the document may not be a precise interpretation of the written text. Users should refer to the scanned image to validate the interpretation of the material.

DELIVERY Inventory #000921. If purchased for postal delivery the file(s) are provided on a CD. Ships from the UK. Postage is free. Posted 1st Class. Air Mail outside UK. You will receive confirmation email on dispatch. It can be purchased from here in CD format for postage, and in downloadable form from lulu.com .

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This page created 15/05/2008 last updated 15/05/2008.