The House on the Strand (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Daphne Du Maurier
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—time travel
- Time of Work: The 1960s, with flashbacks to the fourteenth century
- Setting: Cornwall, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1960’s, England or English people, Time travel, Fourteenth century, Hallucinogens
- Locales: Cornwall, England
The Plot
The House on the Strand takes place in Daphne du Maurier’s six-hundred-year-old home, Kilmarth, on the rugged Cornish coast of southwestern England. Told from the first-person point of view, the novel relates the adventures of Richard Young, whose old school friend, Magnus, now a professor of biophysics, has lent him a house for a summer holiday. In the cellar, Magnus keeps some of his experimental drugs, hallucinogens that take Richard back and forth in time to Cornwall in the 1300’s. Gradually, he becomes more involved in the lives of the medieval lords...
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