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Pages in category "Short story collections by Daphne du Maurier" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Breaking Point is a collection of eight short stories by Daphne du Maurier first published in 1959 by Victor Gollancz in the UK and Doubleday in the US. It has also been published under the title The Blue Lenses and Other Stories.
Daphne du Maurier was born at 24 Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, London, the middle of three daughters of prominent actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont. [3] Her paternal grandfather was author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier , who created the character of Svengali in the 1894 novel Trilby .
The Birds and Other Stories is a collection of stories by the British author Daphne du Maurier.It was originally published by Gollancz in the United Kingdom in 1952 as The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories, [2] and was re-issued by Penguin in 1963 under the current title. [1]
"The Birds" is a horror story by the British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. The story is set in du Maurier's home county of Cornwall shortly after the end of the Second World War. A farmhand, his family and community come under lethal attack from flocks of birds.
Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel by the English author Daphne du Maurier.It depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, before discovering that both he and his household are haunted by the memory of his late first wife, the title character.
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, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a period piece set in Cornwall around 1815. It was inspired by du Maurier's 1930 stay at the real Jamaica Inn, which still exists as a pub in the middle of Bodmin ...
Not After Midnight, and other stories [2] is a 1971 collection of five long stories by Daphne du Maurier.It was first published in Britain by Gollancz (with a cover by du Maurier's daughter Flavia Tower [1] [4]), and in America by Doubleday under the title Don't Look Now. [3]
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