Daphne Du Maurier: 42 books

"Rebecca is a work of immense intelligence and wit, elegantly written, thematically solid, suspenseful.." --Washington Post "Daphne du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings." --Stephen King Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

Daphne du Maurier's classic novel of lust, suspicion, and obsession--now a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin. Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, and Philip grows...

"This novel catches fire." --New York Times 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...

"Daphne du Maurier is a magician, a virtuoso. She can conjure up tragedy, tension, suspense, the ridiculous, the vain, the romantic." --Good Housekeeping Honor Harris is only eighteen when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless - and utterly captivating. But following a...

"The Glass-Blowers consistently entertains." --New York Times The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language - and its own rules. 'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world'....

Daphne du Maurier explicaba en una nota preliminar a La posada Jamaica (1936) que el establecimiento al que alude el título aún seguía en pie y que la novela era el producto de sus fantasías sobre cómo habría sido ciento veinte años antes. La acción arranca precisamente con un recuerdo clave...

"A diverse and engrossing cast of characters...provocative, diverting." --Chicago Tribune Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post,...

Following the death of their young daughter, John and Laura visit Venice to try and escape their grief. But when the couple meet two aged sisters, one of whom claims to have psychic visions of the dead girl, strange things start to happen. Filmed in 1973 with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland,...

"A magician, a virtuoso. She can conjure up tragedy, horror, tension, suspense, the ridiculous, the vain, the romantic." --Good Housekeeping As far as his father, a famous writer, is concerned, Richard will never amount to anything, and so he decides to take his fate into his own...

"Wickedly readable... Daphne du Maurier has instinct, with the result that every woman instinctively wants to read her." -New York Times Book Review Maria, Niall and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents - their father, a flamboyant singer and their mother, a talented...

"A literary artist in her own right." -New York Times A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb. Julius Lévy has grown up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught...

'There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known. Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone . . ....

Cornovaglia, metà Ottocento. Rimasto orfano a diciotto mesi, dopo la morte improvvisa dei genitori, Philip Ashley viene cresciuto dal cugino Ambrose, uno scapolo impenitente e non privo di una buona dose di misoginia. Per anni il loro ménage familiare scorre sereno e tranquillo e vano risulta qualsiasi...

"Ich möchte, dass Sie all meine Spielzeuge in Aktion erleben, bevor ich mich intensiv mit Ihnen unterhalte", schnurrte Hsui T'ang. Und er sah diese Spielzeuge in Aktion. Eine Tortur nach der anderen mussten diese beiden bedauernswerten Kreaturen über sich ergehen lassen. Sie wurden auf...