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A tone-deaf model with beautiful feet charms three young painters in Paris while a sinister musician watches.
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トリルビーの概要
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- 約6 h 40 min5 h 15 min fast, 7 h 55 min slow
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- 94,600語
- ライブラリ内の難易度
- 標準 longer sentences, everyday words
- 初版刊行年
- 1894by ジョージ・デュ・モーリエ
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トリルビー in short
Trilby is the story of three young painters in 1850s Paris and the tall, kind, tone-deaf model who joins them. It starts as a comedy of studios, songs and food, with friendship as a home. Then love, shame and class pressure arrive, a mother steps in, and the happy circle breaks apart.
What トリルビー is about
Picture a studio in the Latin Quarter of Paris on a sunny, showery April day. Three young friends enjoy their new home. Then a loud knock sounds and a voice calls out the English milkman's cry. A tall young woman walks in wearing a French soldier's gray overcoat and huge felt slippers. She sits cross-legged on the model throne, eats bread and cream cheese, and announces that she owns the handsomest feet in all Paris. Then she offers to sing.
This is Trilby, the novel by George Du Maurier, an artist and famous draughtsman for Punch who studied painting in Paris as a young man. He looks back on his student days with a smile and a sigh, and he gives you laughter, songs, a gentle heroine and a sinister musician named Svengali.
対象読者. For readers who love the Paris of artists, warm friendships, fond narrators, and love stories shadowed by a sinister musician. It suits anyone who enjoys music, painting and old songs.
The story in 7 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Three friends and a model share Paris
The story opens in a big studio on the Place St. Anatole des Arts. It is a young man's paradise, with a piano from London, fencing foils, a trapeze, plaster casts and a vast divan under the north window. Three English friends share it, and their happiness comes first, because everything later is measured against it.
Taffy is a huge Yorkshireman who served in the Crimean War and missed the charge at Balaklava through a sprained ankle. The Laird is a cheerful Scot who paints bullfighters he has never seen. Little Billee is the youngest, small, graceful and gifted, raised at home by his mother and sister. His friends see his true genius and guard his innocence.
Then Trilby O'Ferrall arrives, calling out the milkman's cry. Her face is freckled and her mouth is wide, yet her smile is so friendly that the room warms at once. She is an artist's model, proud of her perfect feet. She offers to sing Ben Bolt, her only song. She follows the shape of the tune but never lands on a true note, and nobody knows whether it is a joke.
Little Billee sees something else in her. With an old compass he scratches her foot on the red wall, and a sculptor later calls it a little masterpiece. Billee wishes she did not pose for the figure, and he begins to idealize her from the feet up.
Joy in this book begins with a glance and a foot on a wall.
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Svengali plays like an angel, bullies like a brute
Two musicians arrive at the studio.
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A cure for pain that frightens Trilby
Trilby suffers from nerve pain in her eyes.
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Carrel's studio and a family of four
Little Billee joins the art school run by the courteous master Carrel.
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Trilby learns shame and Little Billee runs
The narrator says plainly that Trilby has every virtue but one.
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A Christmas feast and a twentieth question
As Christmas nears, Taffy and the Laird plan a feast in the studio.
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A mother's visit separates the lovers
On New Year's Day, Little Billee's mother arrives at the studio with her brother-in-law, the Reverend Thomas Bagot.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Trilby O'Ferrall A tall, freckled, kind and funny artist's model and laundress who longs to be good and loves Little Billee, though she cannot sing a note in tune.
- Little Billee A small, gifted young English painter, tender and impressionable, who falls deeply in love with Trilby and sets out to make his name.
- Taffy A giant Yorkshireman, former soldier and realist painter, loyal and quick-tempered, who guards Little Billee and quietly admires Trilby.
- The Laird Sandy, a jolly Scot and friend of Taffy, who paints bullfighters he has never seen and shares the studio with warm humor.
- Svengali A brilliant, dirty, vain musician and bully, who wants fame and wants Trilby, and who has hypnotic powers over her.
- Gecko A small, devoted violinist and one of Svengali's two friends, who adores Trilby in silence and plays with moving beauty.
- Mrs. Bagot Little Billee's anxious, loving mother, who wants to protect her son and fears the consequences of his engagement.
- Durien A fine young sculptor in Trilby's building, who admires her and helps her through her troubles.
How it ends (spoiler)
Little Billee's love for Trilby returns at the sight of her singing in Paris, but he finds she is the wife of Svengali. In truth, Svengali has been mesmerizing her into singing, and when he dies in London she cannot sing or recall her triumphs. She dies, singing one last time before his photograph. Little Billee follows her into an early death. Taffy marries Little Billee's sister, and years later he meets old Gecko, who tells him the secret.
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『トリルビー』についての質問
What is Trilby about?
Trilby follows three English art students in 1850s Paris and Trilby O'Ferrall, a warm-hearted artist's model. Their friendship becomes a love story that is tested by class, reputation and the hypnotic influence of the musician Svengali.
Who is Svengali in Trilby?
Svengali is a gifted pianist and singing teacher who is also greedy, cruel and vain. He claims to have rediscovered the lost art of beautiful singing, and he has mesmerizing eyes. His name now means a person who controls another.
Is Trilby a true story?
No, it is a novel, written in the 1890s by George Du Maurier. It draws on his own student years in Paris, and vividly evokes the studios, streets and cafés of the Latin Quarter.
What does the name Trilby mean?
Trilby is the heroine's first name. The book gave rise to the soft felt hat now called a trilby, after the stage version of the novel. The name Svengali also entered the language.
Is Trilby worth reading today?
It offers a lively, funny narrator, vivid Paris scenes, songs, food and friendships, plus a love story with a lasting question about power and forgiveness. Its short parts and warm voice make it easy to enjoy.
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Du Maurier, George. Trilby. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/trilby.
Du Maurier, G. (2026). Trilby. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/trilby (Original work published 1894)
Du Maurier, George. Trilby. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/trilby.
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author = {Du Maurier, George},
title = {Trilby},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/trilby},
note = {First published 1894}
}
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