Jan 6, 2010
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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