The Scapegoat
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A masterwork of psychological suspense, The Scapegoat chronicles the unsettling story of John, a lonely English academic who, while traveling through France, encounters his exact double — a dissolute French aristocrat named Jean de Gué. When de Gué engineers a sinister exchange of identities and vanishes, John is thrust into a stranger's crumbling life, forced to inhabit his family, his secrets, and his sins. Du Maurier constructs the narrative with her signature atmospheric tension, drawing the reader into a world where identity becomes dangerously fluid and moral responsibility impossible to escape. As John assumes the role of a man he does not know, the novel argues that the masks we wear — and those forced upon us — can reveal more truth than the faces beneath them. Rich with gothic undertones and sharp psychological insight, this is a gripping meditation on selfhood, guilt, and the seductive danger of becoming someone else entirely.
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A masterwork of psychological suspense, The Scapegoat chronicles the unsettling story of John, a lonely English academic who, while traveling through France, encounters his exact double — a dissolute French aristocrat named Jean de Gué. When de Gué engineers a sinister exchange of identities and vanishes, John is thrust into a stranger's crumbling life, forced to inhabit his family, his secrets, and his sins. Du Maurier constructs the narrative with her signature atmospheric tension, drawing the reader into a world where identity becomes dangerously fluid and moral responsibility impossible to escape. As John assumes the role of a man he does not know, the novel argues that the masks we wear — and those forced upon us — can reveal more truth than the faces beneath them. Rich with gothic undertones and sharp psychological insight, this is a gripping meditation on selfhood, guilt, and the seductive danger of becoming someone else entirely.