The Daphne Du Maurier Omnibus

Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Virago
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Virago
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Unknown
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:365076651

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The Daphne Du Maurier Omnibus by Daphne Du Maurier Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:864562226

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Daphne Du Maurier Omnibus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Virago
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405523806

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Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2 by Daphne Du Maurier Pdf

Includes The House on the Strand, Julius, The Loving Spirit and The Doll: Short Stories. Written in the tradition of Poe and Lovecraft, The House on the Strand is a gripping, time-travelling horror tale. The eponymous hero of Julius is a quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian war, who is soon on his way to seek a fortune in London. The Loving Spirit, Daphne du Maurier's first published novel, is the history of the lives, loves and hardships of a Cornish family at the turn of the twentieth century. This omnibus also includes The Doll, a collection of some of du Maurier's most thrilling short stories.

Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Virago
Page : 1818 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Virago
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 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.

Author : Jan Bassett
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0522850294

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The Facing Island by Jan Bassett Pdf

The discovery of a wonderful primary source—the five-year correspondence from Wilson Tong of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to Edith Harris at Phillip Island—inspired the author to create this rich and unusual memoir, written as she came to terms with a diagnosis of cancer. As the author replies to the long-dead soldier's letters, links and parallels emerge between the young man living with the fear of death and the woman, 80 years later, facing her own death in middle age. She reflects on her life—particularly her childhood on Phillip Island—her work, and her own confrontation with mortality.

Author : George Watson,I. R. Willison
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950 by George Watson,I. R. Willison Pdf

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Author : Laura Griffin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451689341

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Far Gone by Laura Griffin Pdf

Andrea Finch is a rising star in the Austin police department until a split-second decision derailed her career. On leave from her job, she gets an urgent call from her younger brother. Andrea's search for answers takes her to a dusty Texas border town where nothing is quite what it seems. FBI agent Jon North is working undercover in west Texas investigating an unsolved murder that may be linked to a broader plot. When the evidence points to Andrea's brother, they race to confront a heartless killer who will stop at nothing to deliver a final, terrifying message.

Author : Daphne du Maurier
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Virago Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Virago
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748128464

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The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne Du Maurier Pdf

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA. 'She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense' GUARDIAN 'One of the last century's most original literary talents' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Du Maurier employs well the assured balancing of uncanny possibilities ... and the bitterly wry sense of absurdity that were to characterise her finest fiction' HELEN TAYLOR, INDEPENDENT 'I want to know if men realise when they are insane. Sometimes I think that my brain cannot hold together, it is filled with too much horror - too much despair . . . I cannot sleep, I cannot close my eyes without seeing his damned face. If only it had been a dream.' This collection showcases the budding talent and fierce imagination of Daphne du Maurier, before she went on to write one of the most beloved novels of all time. In these tales of human frailty and obsession, a waterlogged notebook washes ashore, revealing a dark story of jealousy and passion; a vicar coaches a young couple divided by class issues and an older man falls perilously in love with a much younger woman. Each tale demonstrates du Maurier's extraordinary storytelling gifts and her deep understanding of human nature.

Author : Daphne du Maurier
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Dame Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : English language
ISBN : 7506205858

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Two Stories from Daphne Du Maurier by Dame Daphne Du Maurier Pdf