Word: maurier
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Trilby," said Mr. Copeland, is full of the charm of novelty. In it all conventionalities are thrown aside. Du Maurier defies in one half page all the rules of syntax and most of the rules of rhetoric. He does know of the periodic sentence. The book is not written, it is talked, and Mr. Henry James has said of it, that it is not even talked, it is smoked. Taffy, the Laird, and Little Billee are types, not individuals, but the close feeling of friendship, amounting almost to brotherhood, is masterfully drawn. The test of an imaginative work...
...talk was followed by reading from Homer, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and from George Du Maurier's "Trilby...