- Title : The House on the Strand
- Author : Daphne du Maurier
- Rating : 4.97 (311 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-5-14
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 304 Pages
- Asin : 0812217268
- Language : English
The effects of the drink wear off after several hours, but it is wildly addictive, and Richard cannot resist traveling back and forth in time. In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fou
The effects of the drink wear off after several hours, but it is wildly addictive, and Richard cannot resist traveling back and forth in time. In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past you will be thrust instantaneously to the present.Magnus Lane, a University of London chemical researcher, asks his friend Richard Young and Young's family to stay at Kilmarth, an ancient house set in the wilds near the Cornish coast. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, The House on the Strand is a masterful yarn of history, romance, horror, and suspense that will grip the reader until the last surprising twist.. P. Here, Richard drinks a potion created by Magnus and finds himself at the same spot where he was moments earlier—though it is now the fourteenth century. Richard eventually finds emotional refuge with a beautiful woman of the past trapped in a loveless marriage, but when he attempts to intervene on her behalf the results are brutally terrifying for the present.Echoing the great fantastic stories of H. Gradually growing more involved in the lives of the early Cornish manor lords and their ladies, he fHe is routinely injured, and one of his friends actually dies during time travel when he walks into a moving freight train.This time travel device used by Du Maurier reminded me of the technique empolyed by Carl Sagan in his novel, Contact. Without giving too much away, suffice it to say that there's nothing positive in the main character's life and it doesn't get better as his wife and step kids join him. In Sagan's book, the heroine travels through space/time to meet aliens, even though it looks to observers on the ground as though she went nowhere. It is a fascinating book for all of us who are interested in fashionable clothing and accessories. It looks great as a coffee table book in my office!. Although the story will keep you interested, there are others that have similar themes that are far more entertaining and have more interesting characters than this book.. This book is a must for all fashion libraries. In this novel, the author uses an unusual device for moving the hero around in time -- a potion that he drinks takes him to a time where he seems to have emotional connections with the people he meets.While he is walking about in the past, in this case the Middle Ages, he is unseen by the people of the tiIn addition to The Scapegoat and The House on the Strand, Dame Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) wrote more than twenty-five acclaimed novels, short stories, and plays, including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek, and "The Birds."
She holds her characters close to reality; the past she creates is valid, and her skill in finessing the time shifts is enough to make one want to try a little of the brew himself."—New York Times. "The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier
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