The relation between Trilby and Svengali forms only a small portion of the novel, which is mainly an evocation of a milieu, but it is a crucial one. Trilby O'Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artists' model and laundress all the men in the novel are in love with her. Though it features the stories of two English and a Scottish artist one of the most memorable characters is Svengali, a Jewish rogue, masterful musician, and hypnotist. Trilby is set in the 1850s in an idyllic bohemian Paris.
Trilby (1894) is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula. Previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Full beige cloth with olive green & gilt design on the front cover, lightly sooiled, illustrated frontispiece and numerous other full page and in text illustrations.
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