A Book In Margaret's Collection
In episode five (1.005, Cooper's Dreams), Cooper, Sheriff Truman, Doc Hayward, and Deputy Hawk visit Margaret Lanterman's cabin by chance as they search for Jacques Renault's cabin in the woods.
Margaret's home houses many books. Unfortunately, their titles remain at a distance and are next to indecipherable. After devoting some time to the task, it became clear that only one title would let itself be known. That book appears to be The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier. You can see it when Margaret is by her stove as the men first enter her house.
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Wikipedia's opening book synopsis states,
"Like many of du Maurier's novels, The House on the Strand has a supernatural element, exploring the ability to mentally travel back in time and experience historical events at first hand - but not to influence them. It has been called a Gothic tale, "influenced by writers as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson, Dante, and the psychologist Carl Jung,[3] in
which a sinister potion enables the central character to escape the
constraints of his dreary married life by traveling back through time".[4] The narrator agrees to test a drug that transports him back to 14th century Cornwall and becomes absorbed in the lives of people he meets there, to the extent that the two worlds he is living in start to merge."
There is one other book in her home that may be identifiable. It's spine appears similar to those in the Readers Digest Condensed Book series. Vol. 4 of the 1963 edition features a brown and white coloring scheme like that of a book on Margaret's shelf. Other characters in Twin Peaks have copies of the Readers Digest series in their homes, so it is a possibility Margaret received one as well.
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Another volume of the Readers Digest series has white and brown coloring, Vol. 4 from 1958.
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