Daphne Du Maurier Omnibus 1

Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Virago
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405523790

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Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1 by Daphne Du Maurier Pdf

Includes the novels Frenchman's Creek and Hungry Hill, and the story collection The Birds & Other Stories. Frenchman's Creek tells the story of Lady Dona St Columb's escape from the Restoration Court in search of love and adventure at Navron in Cornwall. Hungry Hill is a powerful tale of the feud between two great families, the Donovans and the Brodricks. Daphne du Maurier's short story 'The Birds' was the basis for the classic Hitchcock film.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:864562226

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Daphne Du Maurier Omnibus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:365076651

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The Daphne Du Maurier Omnibus by Daphne Du Maurier Pdf

Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Virago
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405523820

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Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4 by Daphne Du Maurier Pdf

Includes Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's best-known and bestselling novel, is the classic tale of a young woman who marries handsome widower Maxim de Winter and moves to his great house at Manderley in Cornwall, only to find that all is not as it first seems . . . In My Cousin Rachel, Philip Ashley, an orphan raised by his benevolent cousin Ambrose, is drawn into the orbit of Ambrose's beautiful, mysterious new wife Rachel.

Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Virago
Page : 1818 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405523813

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Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 3 by Daphne Du Maurier Pdf

Includes Jamaica Inn, The Flight of the Falcon, The King's General, The Glass Blowers, Mary Anne, and The Breaking Point & Other Stories. Jamaica Inn weaves a tale of mystery at the eponymous inn on Cornwall's bleak moorlands. The Flight of the Falcon is set in the Italian town of Ruffano: in the 20th century the town has nearly forgotten its violent history, but is it still stained by its dark past? Set in the 17th century at Menabilly in Cornwall, The King's General is the story of a country and a family riven by war. The French Revolution is the backdrop to The Glass Blowers, a tale of family tragedy. Mary Anne is a vivid portrait of one woman's ambition as she rises from ordinary beginnings to become an influential royal mistress to the Duke of York.

Author : Margery Sharp
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504034265

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The Eye of Love by Margery Sharp Pdf

Margery Sharp’s enchanting New York Times–bestselling novel about the profound ways that love can change our view of other people and the world around us Miss Dolores Diver and Harry Gibson have been passionately in love ever since they met at the Chelsea Arts Ball: He came as a brown paper parcel, she as a Spanish dancer. Only the eye of love could have transformed plain Dolores into a Spanish rose and stout Harry into the man of Dolores’s dreams. But ten years later, during the Great Depression, Harry must marry his colleague’s daughter in order to save his nearly bankrupt business. The course of true love never runs smoothly but with some inadvertent help from Dolores’s keenly observant nine-year-old niece, Martha, Harry’s grasping fiancée, and Dolores’s calculating lodger, Harry might succeed in both averting financial ruin and reclaiming his beloved.

Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106017934636

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Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Pdf

The young second wife of a widower comes to realize the evil surrounding Rebecca, his first wife.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106021025819

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The National Union Catalogs, 1963- by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 1844080714

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The Rendezvous and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier Pdf

Mary Farren went into the gun room one morning about half-past eleven, took her husband's revolver and loaded it, then shot herself. The butler heard the sound of the gun from the pantry... The fourteen haunting stories in this collection span the whole of Daphne du Maurier's writing career and explore every human emotion: an apparently happily married woman commits suicide; a steamer in wartime is rescued by a mysterious sailing-ship; a dull husband breaks loose in a surprising fashion; a con woman plays her game once too often; and a famous novelist looks for romance, only to meet with bitter disappointent. Each meticulously observed tale shows du Maurier's mastery of the genre.

Author : Daphne du Maurier
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316253543

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Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier Pdf

The story of a deadly curse that afflicted an Irish family for a hundred years. "I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten . . . but this hill will be standing still to confound you." So curses Morty Donovan when Copper John Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of Hungry Hill and extracting the treasure it holds. The Donovans, the original owners of Clonmere Castle, resent the Brodricks' success, and consider the great house and its surrounding land theirs by rights. For generations the feud between the families has simmered, always threatening to break into violence . . .

Author : Daphne du Maurier
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316254366

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The du Mauriers by Daphne du Maurier Pdf

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

Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1354 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : English imprints
ISBN : PSU:000030001084

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General Catalogue of Printed Books by British Museum. Department of Printed Books Pdf

Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : English imprints
ISBN : IND:30000092331705

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General Catalogue of Printed Books by British Museum. Department of Printed Books Pdf

Author : Tom Sharpe
Publisher : Random House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446474679

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Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe Pdf

When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon on the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman leads to the most memorable transplant operation yet recorded; Luitenant Verkramp of the Security Branch, ever active in the pursuit of Communist cells; Konstabel Els, with his propensity for shooting first and not thinking later - and also for forcing himself upon African women in a manner legally reserved for male members of their own race. In the course of the strange events which follow, we encounter some very esoteric perversions when the Kommandant is held captive in Miss Hazelstone's remarkable rubber room; and some even more amazing perversions of justice when Miss Hazelstone's brother, the Bishop of Barotseland, is sentenced to be hanged on the ancient gallows in the local prison. Not a 'political' novel in any previously imagined sense, Riotous Assembly provided a completely fresh approach to the South African scene - an approach startling in its deadpan savagery and yet also outrageously funny.

Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Virago
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780748114658

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The Winding Stair by Daphne Du Maurier Pdf

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA ' ... a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher' FRANCIS KING 'du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH It wasn't until he was forty-five that Bacon's feet found the first step on that staircase, when King James I made him Solicitor-General, from where he rose through the ranks to become Lord Chancellor. Many accounts of the life of Sir Francis Bacon have been written for scholars, but du Maurier's aim was to paint a vivid portrait of this remarkable man for the common reader. In The Winding Stair, she illuminates the considerable achievements of this Renaissance man as a writer, lawyer, philosopher, scientist, and politician. To her book, she brought the same gifts of imagination and perception that made her earlier biography, Golden Lads, so immensely readable, skilfully threading into her narrative extracts from contemporary documents and from Bacon's own writings. This also sets her account of his life within a vivid contemporary framework. This is truly history made alive.