The Parasites

Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316253502
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
When people play the game: Name three or four persons whom you would choose to have with you on a desert island - they never choose the Delaneys. They don't even choose us one by one as individuals. We have earned, not always fairly we consider, the reputation of being difficult guests . . . Maria, Niall, and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents - their father, a flamboyant singer and their mother, a talented dancer. Now pursuing their own creative dreams, all three siblings feel an undeniable bond, but it is Maria and Niall who share the secret of their parents' pasts. Alternately comic and poignant, The Parasites is based on the artistic milieu its author knew best, and draws the reader effortlessly into that magical world.

Myself When Young

Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316254371
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
Both in her novels and her memoirs, Daphne du Maurier revealed an ardent desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries she kept between 1920 and 1932, du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her marriage. Often painfully honest, she recounts her difficult relationship with her father, her education in Paris, her early love affairs, her antipathy towards London life, and her desperate ambition to succeed as a writer. The resulting self-portrait is of a complex, utterly captivating young woman. "An intimate view of a creative personality...as richly evocative as any of her novels."-Los Angeles Times

The King's General

Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402217080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
"Daphne du Maurier has no equal." Sunday Telegraph As civil war rages across England, the weak prove their courage and the privileged become traitors

Daphne Du Maurier

Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446455602
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
The definitive biography of Daphne Du Maurier, one of history's greatest psychological thriller novelists Rebecca, published in 1938, brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the popular imagination with its haunting atmosphere of suspense and mystery. Du Maurier was immediately established as the queen of the psychological thriller. But the more fame this and her other books encouraged, the more reclusive Daphne du Maurier became. Margaret Forster's award-winning biography could hardly be more worthy of its subject. Drawing on private letters and papers, and with the unflinching co-operation of Daphne du Maurier's family, Margaret Forster explores the secret drama of her life - the stifling relationship with her father, actor-manager Gerald du Maurier; her troubled marriage to war hero and royal aide, 'Boy' Browning; her wartime love affair; her passion for Cornwall and her deep friendships with the last of her father's actress loves, Gertrude Lawrence, and with an aristocratic American woman. Most significant of all, Margaret Forster ingeniously strips away the relaxed and charming facade to lay bare the true workings of a complex and emotional character whose passionate and often violent stories mirrored her own fantasy life more than anyone could ever have imagined.

Mary Anne

Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316323713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
She set men's hearts on fire and scandalized a country. An ambitious, stunning, and seductive young woman, Mary Anne finds the single most rewarding way to rise above her station: she will become the mistress to a royal duke. In doing so, she provokes a scandal that rocks Regency England. A vivd portrait of sex, ambition, and corruption, Mary Anne is set during the Napoleonic Wars and based on Daphne du Maurier's own great-great-grandmother. "This novel catches fire."-New York Times

Rebecca's Tale

Author: Sally Beauman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443431494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 604

Book Description
The compelling companion to Daphne du Maurier’s celebrated classic, Rebecca, Sally Beauman’s Rebecca’s Tale begins more than 20 years after the death of Rebecca de Winter, and 20 years since Manderley, the de Winter family estate, was destroyed by fire. But Rebecca’s tale is just beginning...

Don't Look Now

Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316253642
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely schoolmaster is impelled to investigate a mysterious American couple. A young woman loses her cool when she confronts her father's old friend on a lonely island. A party of British pilgrims meet strange phenomena and possible disaster in the Holy Land. A scientist abandons his scruples while trying to tap the energy of the dying mind. Collecting five stories of mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now and Other Stories showcases her unique blend of sympathy and spinetingling suspense. "Daphne du Maurier is in a class by herself."-New York Times

Daphne Du Maurier and Her Sisters

Author: Jane Dunn
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780007347094
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Du Mauriers -- three beautiful, successful and rebellious sisters. Much has been written about Daphne but here the hidden lives of the sisters are revealed in a riveting group biography.

Jamaica Inn

Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316575225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From the author of Rebecca and The Birds: a classic thriller of shipwreck and murder, "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 memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls -- and tempted to love a man she dares not trust. The inspiration for the 1939 Alfred Hitchcock film.

The Birds

Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher: Penguin Longman
ISBN: 9781405869768
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Contemporary / British English Nat and his family live near the sea. Nat watches the birds over the sea. Suddenly the weather is colder, and there is something strange about the birds. They are angry. They start to attack. They want to get into the house. They want to kill.