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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 Glass-Blowers is a 1963 novel by Daphne du Maurier.. The novel tells the story of a French family of glassblowers, the Bussons, charting their journey before, during and after the French Revolution.
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]
Kirkus Reviews began "A haunting series of stories, in most cases putting it up to the reader to interpret the final outcome – in all cases using the device of the moment in life when emotion or reason reaches the point of tension beyond which something snaps", and finished with "In this collection...Daphne du Maurier's peerless craftmanship, her eerie sense of the macabre, her gift for ...
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The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in the UK in 1969 by Victor Gollancz, with a jacket illustration by her daughter, Flavia Tower. [1] [2] The US edition was published by Doubleday.
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. B.
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]