The Martian

Name: The Martian
Author: George Du Maurier
ISBN: 9781787360693

Author: George Du Maurier
Language: English
Length: 378 pages
ISBN: 9781787360693
Published: 2 November 2019
Imprint: Fantastica

Fantasy
Trilby
Science fiction
adventure
action
hypnotic
Svengali
gothic

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Description

Barty Josselin and Robert Maurice are English boys attending the Institution F. Brossard, in Paris. Barty is a handsome, high-spirited, mischievous, and gifted fellow, thoroughly practical, yet with traits that have in them a strange idealism. After finishing school, they return to England, where Barty spends some time in the army, but resigns. His vision fails, and he travels seeking help with it, becoming suicidal. He learns in a dream that he has a kind of guardian spirit Martia, a female spirit from Mars, who communicates with him and offers him guidance. She inspires him to a successful career as an author.

Author

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a Franco-British cartoonist and writer, known for his work in Punch and for his Gothic novel Trilby, which featured the character Svengali. He was the father of actor Sir Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier. He was also the father of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and grandfather of the five boys who inspired J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan.

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