The House on the Strand, Daphne du Maurier
The House on the Strand, Daphne du Maurier
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The House on the Strand

Author: Daphne du Maurier

Narrator: Ron Keith

Unabridged: 11 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/19/2014


Synopsis

Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research.

When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wear off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda...

"The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier."-New York Times

About Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) has been called one of the great shapers of popular culture and the modern imagination. Among her more famous works are The Scapegoat, Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, and the short story "The Birds," all of which were subsequently made into films—the latter three directed by Alfred Hitchcock.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on October 14, 2024

Quite a few of Daphne du Maurier's novels and short stories have been made into films, and this is how many people have come to discover her work. The House on the Strand is one of her lesser-known novels; the penultimate novel by Daphne du Maurier from 1969. It is an unusual work about time travel......more

Goodreads review by Baba on September 19, 2022

In 1960s Cornwall, Dick Young is only half heartedly engaging with his family and the world he lives in. Why? Because he is addicted to going back into the past, to the 14th century, where he is consumed with the lives and intrigues of he court there. He has been using a new discovery of a professor......more