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DU MAURIER, DAPHNE; MYERSON, JULIE (INTRODUCTION). Julius.
Virago Press, London: 2004. 1844080684 / 9781844080687 Reprint Edition. Previously published under the title The Progress of Julius. s Softcover. Brand new book.
Julius Levy grows up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape to Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease of swindling, the rewards of love affairs and the value of secrecy. Before he's twenty, he is in London, where his empire-building begins in earnest, and he becomes a rich very ruthless man. Throughout his life, Julius is driven by a hunger for power, his one weakness his daughter, Gabriel. A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb.
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