Daphne Du Maurier

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446455602
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Daphne Du Maurier written by Daphne Du Maurier and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of Daphne Du Maurier, one of history's greatest psychological thriller novelists Rebecca, published in 1938, brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the popular imagination with its haunting atmosphere of suspense and mystery. Du Maurier was immediately established as the queen of the psychological thriller. But the more fame this and her other books encouraged, the more reclusive Daphne du Maurier became. Margaret Forster's award-winning biography could hardly be more worthy of its subject. Drawing on private letters and papers, and with the unflinching co-operation of Daphne du Maurier's family, Margaret Forster explores the secret drama of her life - the stifling relationship with her father, actor-manager Gerald du Maurier; her troubled marriage to war hero and royal aide, 'Boy' Browning; her wartime love affair; her passion for Cornwall and her deep friendships with the last of her father's actress loves, Gertrude Lawrence, and with an aristocratic American woman. Most significant of all, Margaret Forster ingeniously strips away the relaxed and charming facade to lay bare the true workings of a complex and emotional character whose passionate and often violent stories mirrored her own fantasy life more than anyone could ever have imagined.

Daphne Du Maurier at Home

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Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 9780711233720
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book Daphne Du Maurier at Home written by Hilary Macaskill and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daphne du Maurier (1907-89) is the author of Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek, Don't Look Now and The Birds among many others which continue to thrill and fascinate readers worldwide. The daughter of Sir Gerald du Maurier, the leading actor manager of his day, she grew up in a wildly imaginative 'Peter Pan' world peopled by London's leading writers and actors, before arriving in Cornwall at the age of 19. The place and its people inspired her to write her first novel The Loving Spirit, a work which so affected a young major in the Grenadier Guards, later Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning, that he travelled to Fowey in his boat Ygdrasil to meet - and eventually to marry - the author. This bewitching evocation of place was to remain a feature of Daphne du Maurier's writing, and the source of much of her enduring popularity. Hilary Macaskill explores the homes and landscapes of Daphne du Maurier's life, and how these relate to her work in sometimes unexpected ways. Generously illustrated with little-seen material from the family archive as well as new colour photographs, this is a book which will enrich and transport anyone who has ever lost themselves between the covers of a Daphne du Maurier novel.

The Parasites

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316253502
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Parasites written by Daphne du Maurier and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 dancer. Now pursuing their own creative dreams, all three siblings feel an undeniable bond, but it is Maria and Niall who share the secret of their parents' past affairs. Alternately comic and poignant, The Parasites is based on the artistic milieu its author knew best, and draws the reader effortlessly into that magical world.

The King's General

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Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402217080
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The King's General written by Daphne Du Maurier and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daphne du Maurier has no equal." Sunday Telegraph As civil war rages across England, the weak prove their courage and the privileged become traitors

Jamaica Inn

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ISBN 13 : 9789356617858
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Jamaica Inn written by Daphne du Maurier and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Yellan travels across the rain-soaked moors to Jamaica Inn on a cold November evening in respect of her dying mother's request. When she arrives, the coachman's warning begins to reverberate in her mind, as her aunt Patience cowers in front of towering Uncle Joss Merlyn. Mary, terrified of the inn's ominous power, eventually becomes entangled in the murky plots unfolding beyond its decaying walls - and persuaded to love a man she can't trust. The source of inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's 1939 masterpiece.

Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812218367
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress written by Nina Auerbach and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.

Murder on the Cliffs

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Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429988674
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)

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Book Synopsis Murder on the Cliffs by : Joanna Challis

Download or read book Murder on the Cliffs written by Joanna Challis and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The storm led me to Padthaway. I could never resist the allure of dark swirling clouds, windswept leaves sweeping down cobbled lanes or a view of the sea stirring up its defiant nature. The sea possessed a power all of its own and this part of Cornwall, an isolated stretch of rocky cliff tops and unexplored beaches both enchanted and terrified me. It is not a lie to say I felt drawn out that day, led to a certain destiny... So begins this new mystery series featuring young Daphne du Maurier, headstrong, adventurous, and standing at the cusp of greatness. Walking on the cliffs in Cornwall, she stumbles upon the drowned body of a beautiful woman, dressed only in a nightgown, her hair strewn along the rocks, her eyes gazing up to the heavens. Daphne soon learns that the mysterious woman was engaged to marry Lord Hartley of Padthaway, an Elizabethan mansion full of intriguing secrets. As the daughter of the famous Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne is welcomed into the Hartley home, but when the drowning turns out to be murder, Daphne determines to get to the bottom of the mysteries of Padthaway—in part to find fresh inspiration for her writing, and in part because she cannot resist the allure of grand houses and long buried secrets.

Don't Look Now

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316253642
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Don't Look Now written by Daphne du Maurier and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daphne du Maurier is in a class by herself." --New York Times A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely schoolmaster is impelled to investigate a mysterious American couple. A young woman loses her cool when she confronts her father's old friend on a lonely island. A party of British pilgrims meet strange phenomena and possible disaster in the Holy Land. A scientist abandons his scruples while trying to tap the energy of the dying mind. Collecting five stories of mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now and Other Stories showcases her unique blend of sympathy and spinetingling suspense.

Gerald

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316253669
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Gerald written by Daphne du Maurier and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A remarkable book...brilliant comic writing." --The Times (UK) Sir Gerald du Maurier was the preeminent actor-manager of his day, knighted in 1922 for his services to the theater. Published within six months of her father's death, Daphne du Maurier's frank portrait was considered shocking by many of his admirers-but it was a huge success, winning her critical acclaim and launching her career. Here, Daphne captures the spirit and charm of the charismatic actor who played the original Captain Hook, amusingly recounting his eccentricities, his humor, as well as his darker side.

Don't Look Now

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590172884
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Don't Look Now written by Daphne du Maurier and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic horror stories by one of masters of the form. Full of bone-chilling tales, this collection includes "The Birds," the basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same title, and other creepy classics. Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life—love, grief, jealousy—into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though no less powerful, are her short stories, in which she gave free rein to her imagination in narratives of unflagging suspense. Patrick McGrath’s revelatory new selection of du Maurier’s stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against man’s abuse by turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. McGrath draws on the whole of du Maurier’s long career and includes surprising discoveries together with famous stories like “The Birds.” Don’t Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller.

Mary Anne

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Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402217110
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Mary Anne written by Daphne Du Maurier and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: V. Gollancz, 1954.

Myself When Young

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316254371
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Myself When Young written by Daphne du Maurier and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An intimate view of a creative personality...as richly evocative as any of her novels." --Los Angeles Times Both in her novels and her memoirs, Daphne du Maurier revealed an ardent desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries she kept between 1920 and 1932, du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her marriage. Often painfully honest, she recounts her difficult relationship with her father, her education in Paris, her early love affairs, her antipathy towards London life, and her desperate ambition to succeed as a writer. The resulting self-portrait is of a complex, utterly captivating young woman.

Growing Pains

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Publisher : London : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9780575022843
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Growing Pains written by Daphne Du Maurier and published by London : Gollancz. This book was released on 1977 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rebecca's Tale

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443431494
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Rebecca's Tale written by Sally Beauman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling companion to Daphne du Maurier’s celebrated classic, Rebecca, Sally Beauman’s Rebecca’s Tale begins more than 20 years after the death of Rebecca de Winter, and 20 years since Manderley, the de Winter family estate, was destroyed by fire. But Rebecca’s tale is just beginning...

Daphne Du Maurier and Her Sisters

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Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780007347094
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Daphne Du Maurier and Her Sisters written by Jane Dunn and published by Collins. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Du Mauriers -- three beautiful, successful and rebellious sisters. Much has been written about Daphne but here the hidden lives of the sisters are revealed in a riveting group biography.

The Apple Tree

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ISBN 13 : 9780575075221
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book The Apple Tree written by Daphne Du Maurier and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birds The idea for this famous story came to her one day when she was walking across to Menabilly Barton farm from the house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field whilst above him the seagull s were diving and wheeling. She developed the idea about the birds becoming hostile and attacking him. In her story, the birds become hostile after a harsh winter with little food, first the seagull s, then birds of prey and finally even small birds, all turn against mankind. The nightmarish idea appealed to Hitchcock who turned it into the celebrated film. Daphne disliked the film and particularly disliked the translation of the setting from Cornwall, with its small fields and stone hedges, to small-town America. Monte Verità The Apple Tree The Little Photographer Kiss Me Again, Stranger The Old Man

The du Mauriers

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316254363
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The du Mauriers written by Daphne du Maurier and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Daphne du Maurier wrote The du Mauriers she was only thirty years old and had already established herself as both a biographer and a novelist. She wrote this epic biography during a vintage period in her career, between two of her best-loved novels: Jamaica Inn and Rebecca. Her aim was to write the story of her family "so that it reads like a novel." Spanning nearly three quarters of a century, The du Mauriers is a saga of artists and speculators, courtesans and military men. From England to Paris and back again, their fortunes varied as wildly as their ambitions. An extraordinary family of writers, artists and actors they are...The du Mauriers. "Daphne du Maurier creates on the grand scale; she runs through the generations, giving her family unity and reality . . . a rich vein of humor and satire . . . observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic, are here."-The Observer