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The Scapegoat

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Scapegoat, The
Type
Novel
Language
English
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The Scapegoat is a 1957 novel by Daphne du Maurier. In a bar in France, a lonely English academic on holiday meets his double, a French aristocrat who gets him drunk, swaps identities and disappears, leaving the Englishman to sort out the Frenchman's extensive financial and family problems.

The story has been the basis of two films: one in 1959 starring Alec Guinness and Bette Davis and one in 2012 starring Matthew Rhys.

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Novel first published in 1957.

Last modified: 2022-03-31 (revision #88327)

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LibraryThing Work
19867
Wikidata Work ID
Q3220551

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