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The House on the Strand (Virago modern classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The House on the StrandDick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as guinea pig for a new drug Magnus has discovered in his biochemical research; the effect of which is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century.
Full description- Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
- Published: 01 May 2003
- Format: Paperback 352 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9781844080427 ISBN 10: 1844080420
- Sales rank: 36,563
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Full description for The House on the Strand
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champernoune, he witnesses intrigue, adultery and murder. As his time travelling increases, Dick resents more and more the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before ...
