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The Martian, by George du Maurier, published in 1898 (UK edition) is a
thick (471 pages) largely autobiographical novel that tells about the lives
of two bosom friends, Barty Josselin and Robert Maurice, starting from
their school age days in Paris in the 1850?s. Written like a narrative with
very scarce dialogues and many digressions, the book had considerably less
success in its time than the popular Trilby.
Literary significance & criticism Of a rather loose construction, its main
points of interest lie for today?s readers in lively descriptions of "la
vie de bohême" and different parts of Paris through the second half of the
19th century, pages on Mechelen in Belgium and Whitby in the 1870?s, and
its superb illustrations.As in Trilby, we find the recurrent theme of
antisemitism, but less so.What is new in it is the use of swedenborgianism
("...to the most sceptical he has restored that absolute conviction of an
indestructibl
