Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0316253588; ISBN13: 9780316253581. A spellbinding love story, Castle Dor was the unfinished last novel of the British novelist Sir Arthur Quiller-Crouch, better known as "Q." The novel was passed on to Daphne du Maurier by his daughter, who was sure that du Maurier's storytelling skills were perfectly suited to completing the...
Frenchman's Creek is a 1941 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier. Set in Cornwall during the reign of Charles II, it tells the story of a love affair between an impulsive English lady and a French pirate.
Time Warner Books UK, 2003. — 260 p. — ISBN 1844080412; ISBN13 9781844080410. Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside with her restlessness and thirst for adventure as her only guides. Eventually Dona lands in remote Navron, looking for peace of mind in its solitary woods and hidden creeks. She finds the passion her...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0316253677; ISBN13: 9780316253673. Prior to the publication of Golden Lads, Anthony Bacon was viewed as a footnote in the history of his younger brother, Francis. A fascinating historical figure in his own right, Anthony Bacon was a contemporary of the brilliant band of gallants who gathered around the court of Elizabeth I, was...
Pocket Books, 1965. — 416 p. — ISBN 0140023445; ISBN13 9780140023442. The fortunes and fates of five generations of an Anglo-Irish family are bound to their copper mine on Hungry Hill. Beginning with the first stubborn patriarch, O'Brien brings each of the many characters vividly to life - that gruff patriarch; the forthright first-born son; the petulant, lazy second-born; and...
Hungry Hill is a novel by prolific British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1943. There have been 33 editions of the book printed.
This family saga is based on the Irish ancestors of Daphne du Maurier’s friend Christopher Puxley. The story spans the century from 1820 to 1920 following five generations of a family of Anglo-Irish landowners, the Brodricks, who live in a...
Virago, 2005. — 304 p. — ISBN: 1844080692; ISBN13: 9781844080694. 'The iron of the bridge felt hot under my hand. The sun had been upon it all day. Gripping hard with my hands I lifted myself on to the bar and gazed down steadily on the water passing under...I thought of places I would never see, and women I should never love' As far as Richard's father, a famous poet, is...
Virago, 2003. — 315 p. The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn's dark power....
Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. It was later made into a film, also called Jamaica Inn, by Alfred Hitchcock. It is an eerie period piece set in Cornwall in 1820; the real Jamaica Inn still exists and is a pub in the middle of Bodmin Moor. The plot follows a group of murderous wreckers who run ships aground, kill the sailors...
Virago, 2004. — 308 p. — ISBN: 1844080684; ISBN13: 9781844080687. Julius Levy grows up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape to Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease of swindling, the rewards of love affairs and the value of secrecy. Before he's twenty, he...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0316323713; ISBN13: 9780316323710. An ambitious, stunning, and seductive young woman, Mary Anne finds the single most rewarding way to rise above her miserable cockney world: she will become the mistress to a royal duke. In doing so, she provokes a scandal that rocks Regency England. Mary Anne glitters with sex, scandal,...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0316252964; ISBN13: 9780316252966. Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip...
Dame Daphne du Maurier was an English author and playwright. Many of her works have been adapted into films. "My cousin Rachel" was a study in jealousy and suspense with a gothic quality similar to that found in Charlotte Bronte's famous novel "Jane Eyre". "My Cousin Rachel" was set in the nineteenth century and was the third of Daphne's novels to have Menabilly as its main...
Not After Midnight is a 1971 collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier. It was published in Britain under the title Not After Midnight by Gollancz (with a cover by Daphne Du Maurier's daughter Flavia Tower), and published in America by Doubleday as Don't Look Now. The book contains five novella-length stories, all with different characters and themes but similar in that...
Не после полуночи. Пять повестей. 1971. Английской писательницы Дафны Дюморье (1907-1989). На английском языке - на языке оригинала. - Don't Look Now. - Not After Midnight. - A Border-line. - The Way of the Cross. - The Breakthrough.
Unabridged original version. The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their...
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 449 p. — ISBN: 0316323705; ISBN13: 9780316323703. Afterwords by Sally Beauman. Rebecca is a timeless classic in the gothic literature genre. Daphne Du Maurier weaves a tale full of tension and suspense that grips the reader from the start and doesn't let go. Max de Winter brings his new bride to Manderley, the home he shared with his beautiful...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 449 p. — ISBN: 0316323705; ISBN13: 9780316323703. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again... The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they...
First edition. — 1938. While working as the companion to a rich American woman on holiday in Monte Carlo, the unnamed narrator, a naïve young woman in her early 20s, becomes acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, George Fortescue Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter, a 42-year-old widower. After a fortnight of courtship, she agrees to marry him and, after the wedding and honeymoon,...
One of the best and most famous novels by Daphne du Maurier. In the U.S., Du Maurier won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 14 on the UK survey The Big Read.
Сборник включает в себя роман и несколько рассказов, в том числе самые знаменитые произведения английской писательницы Дафны Дюморье (1907-1989): это роман "Ребекка" и рассказ "Птицы", по которому Хичкок поставил одноименный фильм. Язык: английский.. Содержание: - Rebecca. - Monte Verita. - Victor. - The Birds. - The Apple Tree. - The Little Photographer. - Kiss Me Again,...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0316253006; ISBN13: 9780316253000. Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbor. As the two women piece together...
The Apple Tree is a collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier published in 1952 by Gollancz in the UK, and under the title Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Doubleday in the US. It includes "The Birds" which was made into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963, the anthology was then republished under the name The Birds and Other Stories.
- "The Birds" tells of birds...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 356 p. — ISBN: 031625360X; ISBN13: 9780316253604. A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verità' promises immortality, but...
Virago Modern Classics, 2009. — 289 p. — ISBN: 1844085759; ISBN13: 9781844085750. Every Sunday afternoon James Fenton and his wife took their usual walk-every Sunday afternoon.The pattern never changed. Then Fenton reached his breaking point. The idea of escape had never occurred to him before. But suddenly something clicked in his brain. "Now, at this minute, "he thought, "one...
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2011. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0062080342; ISBN13: 9780062080349. The lost stories of Daphne du Maurier, collected in one volume for the first time. Before she wrote Rebecca, the novel that would cement her reputation as a twentieth-century literary giant, a young Daphne du Maurier penned short fiction in which she explored the images, themes, and concerns...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0316253537; ISBN13: 9780316253536. As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life -- until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of...
Стеклодувы (1963). Исторический роман английской писательницы Дафны Дюморье (1907-1989). На английском языке - на языке оригинала. Дюморье описывает историю семьи, принадлежащей цеху стеклодувов. "Ты можешь вдохнуть в стекло жизнь и придать ему форму. Но этим же дыханием ты можешь разрушить его." Франция 18-го века. Дочери должны выходить замуж только за мастеров-стеклодувов....
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 384 p. — ISBN: 0316253510; ISBN13: 9780316253512. The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language - and its own rules. 'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world'. But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the...
The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier. First published in 1969 by Victor Gollancz, it is one of her later works and had a jacket illustration by her daughter, Flavia Tower. The US edition was published by Doubleday.
Like many of du Maurier's novels, The House on the Strand has a supernatural element (though in this case, it can also be accounted as science...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0316252999; ISBN13: 9780316252997. Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time...
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2009. — 448 p. — ISBN: 1402217080; ISBN13: 9781402217081. Daphne du Maurier has no equal. Sunday Telegraph As civil war rages across England, the weak prove their courage and the privileged become traitors In this sweeping, bittersweet saga, spellbinding author Daphne du Maurier recreates a most memorable and true love story. Honor Harris was glorious and...
Virago, 2004. — 384 p. — ISBN 1844080897; ISBN13 9781844080892. Honor Harris is only 18 when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless - and utterly captivating. But following a riding accident, Honor must reconcile herself to a life alone. As Richard rises through the ranks of the army, marries and makes enemies, Honor remains true to him, and finally discovers the...
Virago, 2003. — 416 p. — ISBN: 1844080935; ISBN13: 9781844080939. Plyn Boat Yard is a hive of activity, and Janet Coombe, born in turn of the 20th century Cornwall, she longs to share in the excitement of seafaring: to travel, to have adventures, to know freedom. But constrained by the times, instead she marries her cousin Thomas, a boat builder, and settles down to raise a...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0316253502; ISBN13: 9780316253505. "Wickedly readable... Daphne du Maurier has instinct, with the result that every woman instinctively wants to read her." -New York Times Book Review Maria, Niall and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents - their father, a flamboyant singer and their mother, a talented...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0316253634; ISBN13: 9780316253635. Rebecca was one of Daphne du Maurier's greatest bestsellers. It has been read all around the world, and in many different languages. The book has been adapted for the theater, film, television, and even opera. Now Daphne du Maurier reveals how it came to be written: its origins, its...
Doubleday, 1957. — 368 p. Abridged Version (Reader Digest). By chance, John and Jean - one English, the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Their resemblance to each other is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John falls into a drunken stupor. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, Jean has stolen...
Virago, 2004. — 373 p. — ISBN: 1844080978; ISBN13: 9781844080977. By chance, two men - one English, the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Their resemblance is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John, the Englishman, falls into a drunken stupor. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, his French...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0316254355; ISBN13: 9780316254359. Many accounts of the life of Francis Bacon have been written for scholars. But du Maurier's aim in this biography was to illuminate the many facets of Bacon's remarkable personality for the common reader. To her book she brought the same gifts of imagination and perception that made her earlier...
Oberon, 2004. — ISBN: 9781783193851. In Jamaica Inn, at the heart of the bleak Bodmin Moor, young Mary Yellen soon discovers mysterious goings-on in the dead of night. But worse is yet to come as Mary finds herself helplessly ensnared in the deadly activities taking place around her. Evocative, atmospheric and chilling, this new adaptation of Jamaica Inn has all the hallmarks...
Oberon Books, 2007. — 96 p. — ISBN13: 9781849437196. Following the death of their young daughter, John and Laura visit Venice to try and escape their grief. But when the couple meet two aged sisters, one of whom claims to have psychic visions of the dead girl, strange things start to happen. Filmed in 1973 with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, Daphne du Maurier's classic...
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