George du Maurier

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Books by George du Maurier

Trilby on Inferno: “reads Mr. Rudyard Kipling's delightful stories as well as Dante's "Inferno"”
Trilby on On the Origin of Species: “A--a--it's the _Origin of Species_, by Charles Darwin. I'm very f-f-fond of it. I'm reading it for the third time....”
Trilby on Silas Marner: “with _Silas Marner_, and Darwin's _Origin of Species_ (which he was reading for the third time), and _Punch_”
Trilby on David Copperfield: “Then Mrs. Bagot, as a reward for such winning docility, would read her _David Copperfield_, and that was heavenly indeed!”
Trilby on Quentin Durward: “like Quentin Durward, this d'Artagnan was a Scotsman”
Trilby on Oliver Twist: “putting his forefinger to the side of his nose, like Noah Claypole in _Oliver Twist_.”
Trilby on The Cup: “not even Miss Ellen Terry as the priestess of Artemis in the late Laureate's play, "The Cup."”
Peter Ibbetson on To a Waterfowl: “Under an engraving of a wild duck (after Bewick, I believe) were quoted W.C. Bryant's lines "To a Water-fowl."”
Peter Ibbetson on The Three Musketeers: “and read _Les Trois Mousquetaires_ in the cloisters of Bluefriars”
Peter Ibbetson on Ivanhoe: “and read _Les Trois Mousquetaires_ in the cloisters of Bluefriars, or _Ivanhoe_ in the dull, dusty prison-yard”