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Daphne Du Maurier
The Macmillan Graded Readers series is one of the most popular and respected series of simplified readers for learners of English.
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One of Daphne du Maurier’s four Cornish novels. Filled with jealousy and grief when his cousin Ambrose, his lifelong guardian and best friend, marries in Florence, Philip Ashley goes to…
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The multi-million-copy bestseller that has enthralled generations of readers. A haunting tale of obsessive love. A mesmerizing psychological thriller.
In Monte Carlo, our heroine is swept off her feet by…
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In Daphne du Maurier’s acclaimed debut novel, Janet Coombe longs to know the wildness of the sea and a life of adventure and true freedom.
Based on the true story of one of du Maurier’s own distant relatives, Mary Anne’s love of money and the men who spend it embroil her in risks that threaten…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
A Study Guide for Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Setara Pracha
The book addresses critical omissions in du Maurier studies by carefully examining her less well-known shorter fiction. The analysis covers nine stories chosen to illustrate how du Maurier employs the…
A. Horner,S. Zlosnik
Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination is the first full-length evaluation of du Maurier’s fiction and the first critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer.
Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination is an evaluation of du Maurier’s fiction and a critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Horner and Zlosnik…
Horner and Zlosnik argue that the fears at the heart of du Maurier’s Gothic fictions reflect both personal and broader cultural anxieties concerning sexual and social identity. They look at…
Daphne du Maurier, Dam
For use in schools and libraries only. The new mistress of Manderley’s Cornwall estate must constantly compete with the memory of Maxim de Winter’s first wife, Rebecca.
Clifford Williams,Daphne Du Maurier
Max de Winter brings his shy young bride to Manderley, his great house in Cornwall. Everywhere, she senses the overpowering presence of Rebecca, Max’s drowned wife. Mrs Danvers, the grim…
Classic horror stories by one of masters of the form. Full of bone-chilling tales, this collection includes The Birds, the basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same title…
Daphne du Maurier, Dam,Maurier Daphne Du
The Delaneys have the reputation of being difficult guests. When they arrive, order departs, chaos reigns. Maria, Niall, and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents…
A Study Guide for Daphne du Maurier’s Don’t Look Now, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A compilation of letters sent by Daphne du Maurier to her close friend Oriel Malet with further text by Oriel Malet linking and contextualizing the letters.
Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and Daphne du Maurier are authors of particular importance to the literature of the double, having produced, among other works, The Strange Case of Dr…
Derek Hoddinott,Daphne Du Maurier
Based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier. Spending a holiday with her family in a luxury hotel during a heat-wave, Marie finds life with her conservative, passionless husband…
Dian Morgan,Daphne Du Maurier
Philip Ashley travels to Italy to find his cousin Ambrose has died suddenly and Rachel, Ambrose’s wife, has gone. Philip returns to England convinced Rachel was responsible for Ambrose’s death…
The second Mrs. Maxim de Winter enters the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learns the story of the house’s first mistress, to whom the sinister housekeeper…
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Rebecca is an adapted Upper level reader written by Richard Prescott. This is an outstanding love story about the narrator who meets and falls in love with Maxim de Winter…
From the gothic story by Daphne du Maurier.
Mark Rayment,Daphne Du Maurier
In a Cornish house lives the widowed Stella, a woman of considerable gifts and beauty who regularly rejects proposals of marriage from her neighbour Robert Hanson. Cherry, Stella’s daughter, brings…
A novel of time travel with parallels with the legend of Tristan and Iseult.
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* The celebrated biography of Gerald du Maurier, last of the great actor-managers, by his daughter.
A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier’s third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb.
A coming-of-age novel of adventure and love, ranging over early twentieth century Europe, told by a master storyteller.
A haunting thriller, set in Italy, from the mistress of suspense, Daphne du Maurier
A haunting collection of stories in the tradition of THE BIRDS and DON’T LOOK NOW
A novel of the loyalties, betrayals and rivalries of a glittering theatrical family - and the secrets they hide. From the author of Rebecca.
A study of Anthony Bacon, Francis and their friends
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* an intriguing exploration of the life of Francis Bacon
* du Maurier uses a novelist’s skill to portray this ‘unknown’ Bronte
A brilliant piece of historical fiction. A tale of overweening ambition set during the Napoleonic Wars and based on du Maurier’s own great-great-grandmother.
A love story set during the Civil War.
A powerful, exuberant romance this is Daphne du Maurier’s first novel which shows her beginnings as a great writer
Daphne du Maurier’s autobiography pinpoints the literary influences and overwhelming desire to explore the family history of the girl who became the great writer.
Hungry Hill’ is a passionate story told with du Maurier’s unique gift for drama. It follows five generations of an Irish family and the copper mine on Hungry Hill to…
A collection of eight chilling stories by the author of ‘The Birds’ and ‘Don’t Look Now’, introduced by Sally Beauman
A macabre collection of early short stories by the author of Rebecca, ‘Don’t Look Now’ and ‘The Birds
* a penetrating psychological study with all the haunting power of Rebecca
The classic tale of murder, mystery and romance, in a gorgeous new hardback VMC set of Daphne du Maurier novels.
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and Daphne du Maurier are authors of particular importance to the literature of the double, having produced…
