Publisher's Synopsis
"You shall see nothing, hear nothing, think of nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali!";First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mesmeric mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of the time alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes.;Immensely popular for a number of years, the novel led to a hit play, a series of popular films, and the trilby hat. The setting of the story reflects the author's bohemian years as an art student in Paris; indeed James McNeill Whistler was to recognize himself in one of the early serialized instalments. Goerge Du Maurier was a celebrated caricaturist for "Punch" magazine and his drawings for the novel form part of its appeal - this edition includes his most significant illustrations.
