During the last seven years of his life, George Du Maurier turned from his career as the leading artist for Punch and the popular illustrator of books to achieve new acclaim as a novelist. His three ...
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During the last seven years of his life George Du Maurier wrote and illustrated three fantasy novels with the barest touch of science in each of them. Though each of the novels is firmly rooted in the...
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In the following essay, Whiteley provides an overview of Du Maurier's life and work, focusing most extensively on his circle of literary and artist friends.
To give here more than an outline...
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In the following essay, Ormond critiques Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson, finding the Passy scenes laudable but the rest of the novel somewhat unsatisfactory and disjointed.
The discovery that D...
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George Du Maurier
Critical Essay by Derek Pepys Whiteley
