![]() ![]() There, Magnus pressures him to participate in a drug trial as a subject. The novel begins in Kilmarth in the late 1960s, near a town called Tywardreath, whose English translation is the titular phrase “House on the Strand.” Young quits his job, taking up an offer to live on an ancient estate owned by Magnus Lane, a friend from his time in university who now works in London as a physicist and biologist. ![]() Suddenly recontextualizing history, his conception of the past and present become indistinct, inhabiting one another. Influenced by contemporary trends in psychoanalysis and classic works such as Dante’s Divine Comedy, it is told from the perspective of Dick Young, who trials a drug that sends him back in time to Cornwall in the 1300s. The novel is similar to du Maurier’s other works in that its characters follow unorthodox narrative forms using their abilities to directly perceive, but not directly interact with, history. The House on the Strand is a 1969 gothic novel by English author and playwright Daphne du Maurier. ![]()
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