Daphne Du Maurier: 42 books

"Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher." --Francis King 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...

"The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier." --New York Times 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...

"Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency which gives such animation to her storytelling." -New York Times Book Review Pursued by the twin demons of drink and madness, Branwell Bronte created a private world that was indeed infernal. As a bold...

"In du Maurier's fiction, she unflinchingly exposed hard truths." --Times (UK) 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...

"Highly personalized adventure, ultra-romantic mood, and skillful storytelling." --New York Times 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...

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...

"Anyone starting this book under the impression that he may sleepily relax is in for a shock...continually provokes both pity and terror." --The Observer (UK) A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling...

"A fine romantic tale...rich in suspense and surprise." --New York Times Book Review On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her...

"A dazzlingly clever and immensely entertaining novel." --New York Times 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...

Shrubs of broom grow black and twisted As if by Devil's fingers And the wind that never ceases, Like a chorus from the dead. Those who lived here it's for certain, would grow dark and tortured too' In Jamaica Inn, at the heart of the bleak Bodmin Moor, young Mary Yellen soon discovers mysterious goings-on...

Wanneer Max de Winter zijn jonge bruid vanuit zonnig Monte Carlo meeneemt naar het sombere Manderley, het huis waar hij met zijn mooie, overleden eerste vrouw Rebecca heeft gewoond, wordt ze geconfronteerd met de dominante huishoudster, Mrs. Danvers. Zij blijkt geenszins van plan de herinnering aan...

All’inizio dell’Ottocento, Mary Yellan, giovane orfana di belle speranze e di avvenente aspetto, giunge al Jamaica Inn, una locanda tra i picchi e le scogliere della Cornovaglia, terra, all’alba del nuovo secolo, di pietre e ginestre rachitiche, di pirati e predoni. Dopo la morte della madre,...

Nell’Inghilterra del XVII secolo Lady Dona St. Columb è una giovane e irrequieta donna che cova dentro di sé il desiderio di ribellarsi all’alta società a cui appartiene, al marito che non la comprende e a un ruolo, quello di moglie e madre, che sente inadeguato. Assecondando il proprio desiderio...

Dick Young è un giovane inglese con un modesto e banale impiego in una casa editrice londinese e un'ambiziosa moglie americana che lo vorrebbe a New York, a lavorare nella fiorente impresa editoriale di suo fratello. Un giorno Dick viene invitato a cena dall'amico storico dei tempi di Cambridge,...