Hailed by the New York Times as a masterpiece of "artfully compulsive storytelling," The Scapegoat brings us Daphne du Maurier at the very top of her form/5(). · The research she was to undertake later formed the basis of her novel The Glass-Blowers but du Maurier was sidetracked by a number of incidents that were to inspire the plot of The Scapegoat. While out walking in a square in a French town, du Maurier saw a man who looked identical to someone she knew and then, glancing through a window onto a family scene, she began to . Such is the premise of Daphne du Maurier's novel, The Scapegoat. The Scapegoat is reminiscent of novels such as, "The Prisoner of Zenda" and according to one of Daphne du Maurier's biographers, this rollicking adventure was a favourite story of Daphne's when she was a little girl.4/5.
The Scapegoat - Ebook written by Daphne du Maurier. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Scapegoat. The scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier, , Doubleday edition, Hardcover in English - [1st ed.]. Daphne du Maurier () was born in London, the daughter of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and granddaughter of George du Maurier, the author and artist. In her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published.
The Scapegoat is a novel by Daphne du Maurier. In , it was made into a film of the same name, starring Sir Alec Guinness. It was also the basis of a film broadcast in starring Matthew Rhys and written and directed by Charles Sturridge. Hailed by the New York Times as a masterpiece of "artfully compulsive storytelling," The Scapegoat brings us Daphne du Maurier at the very top of her form. In addition to The Scapegoat and The House on the Strand, Dame Daphne du Maurier () wrote more than twenty-five acclaimed novels, short stories, and plays, including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek, and "The Birds.". Daphne du Maurier –The Scapegoat - Review T he theme of the living double or strange twin is not uncommon in literature. In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's, The Double () Mr. Golyadkin believes he sees himself on a train, haunted by this manifestation.
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