Step into the atmospheric storytelling of Daphne du Maurier with this vintage 1957 First Edition hardcover of The Scapegoat, published by Doubleday & Company.
This classic psychological drama follows an Englishman traveling in France who meets his uncanny double — a French aristocrat. After a night of heavy drinking, he awakens to discover his identity has been switched, and he is now expected to live the other man’s troubled life. As he reluctantly steps into this stranger’s world, he becomes entangled in the secrets, tensions, and emotional undercurrents of a dysfunctional French family — discovering purpose in a life that was never meant to be his.
Themes include identity, fate, moral responsibility, and transformation, delivered in du Maurier’s trademark haunting and suspenseful style.
📖 Book Details
Title: The Scapegoat
Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Year: 1957
Edition: First Edition (stated)
Format: Hardcover (no dust jacket)
Pages: 343 (approx.)
Printed in the USA
🔎 Condition (Vintage / Pre-Owned)
Structurally sound binding
Expected age wear to cover and spine
Some surface marks and rubbing on boards
Light page tanning consistent with age
No loose pages noted