He takes every opportunity to seduce her, but she fears him, especially after he cures her headache by way of mesmerism. At the same time, she becomes the object of Svengali's obsession. An attraction ensues between Little Billee and Trilby, but circumstances tear them apart. He notices, with great amusement, that she cannot tell one high note from another. There is one big drawback: the girl cannot sing a single note, and this is most noticeable with Svengali, an ambitious and horrid German-Jewish musician. He especially loves her feet - artists' feet, perfect feet. She is the prettiest, sweetest and most wistful creature they had laid eyes upon. Set in bohemian Paris, Trilby is the name of the artless and innocent Scot-Irish girl who stumbles upon a group of artists who call themselves the "Three Musketeers of the Brush." The orphaned daughter of a drunken scholar, she is fluent in English and French, but speaks them in slang, has an unaffected air and thinks nothing of posing nude in front of a roomful of artists. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
A celebrated caricaturist for Punch magazine, Du Maurier's drawings for the novel-of which his most significant are included here-form a large part of its appeal.Ībout the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe.
The setting reflects Du Maurier's bohemian years as an art student in Paris before he went to London to make a career in journalism.
Immensely popular for years, the novel led to a hit play, a series of popular films, Trilby products from hats to ice-cream, and streets in Florida named after characters in the book. First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of that period alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes.
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