Daphne Du Maurier

• 1931
• / Gothic
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Cornwall, 1900s. Plyn Boat Yard is a hive of activity, and Janet Coombe longs to share in the excitement of seafaring: to travel, to have adventures, to know freedom. But constrained by the times, instead she marries her cousin Thomas, a boat builder...

• 1932
• / Gothic
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'The iron of the bridge felt hot under my hand. The sun had been upon it all day. Gripping hard with my hands I lifted myself on to the bar and gazed down steadily on the water passing under... I thought of places I would never see, and women I shoul...

• Jan-1933
• / Psychological Suspense
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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 up in the Franco-Pr...

• Jan-1936
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'I want to know if men realise when they are insane. Sometimes I think that my brain cannot hold together, it is filled with too much horror - too much despair . . . I cannot sleep, I cannot close my eyes without seeing his damned face. If only it...

• 1936
• / Gothic
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Her mother's dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. With the coachman's warning echoing in her memory, Mary arrives at a dismal place to find Patienc...

• Jan-1937
• / Gothic
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'I want to know if men realise when they are insane. Sometimes I think that my brain cannot hold together, it is filled with too much horror - too much despair . . . I cannot sleep, I cannot close my eyes without seeing his damned face. If only it...

• Jan-1937
• / Gothic
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“Early stories [that] vividly portrays with humor, candidness, and detail du Maurier’s fascination with the problems of human connection.” -- Publishers WeeklyPerhaps best known for her immortal gothic masterwork Rebecca -- the basis for ...

• Jan-1937
• / Gothic
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'I want to know if men realise when they are insane. Sometimes I think that my brain cannot hold together, it is filled with too much horror - too much despair . . . I cannot sleep, I cannot close my eyes without seeing his damned face. If only it...

• 1938
• / Gothic
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"Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again..." So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past the beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish ...

• Jan-1940
• / Christian
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This is one of the most touching Christmas stories ever written. Daphne du Maurier's small masterpiece has been out of print since 1943, when it appeared as a private press book. Mr and Mrs Lawrence, with their children Margaret and Bob, form ...

• 1940
• / Gothic
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Short book with true stories of England during the early days of World War II....

• Jun-1940
• / Gothic
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Both a spellbinding love story and a superb evocation of Cornwall's mythic past, Castle Dor is a book with unique and fascinating origins. It began life as the unfinished last novel of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the celebrated 'Q', and was passed ...

• 1941
• / Gothic
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The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for a life of honest love -- and sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger. ...

• 1943
• / Gothic
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The story of a deadly curse that afflicted an Irish family for a hundred years. "I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten... but this hill will be standing still to confound you." So curses Morty Do...

• 1944
• / Gothic
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Spring Picture is one of Daphne du Maurier's short stories first published in 1944....

• 1946
• / Gothic
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Inspired by a grisly discovery in the nineteenth century, The King's General was the first of du Maurier's novels to be written at Menabilly, the model for Manderley in Rebecca. Set in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of a country ...

• 1949
• / Gothic
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'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 cons...

• 1951
• / Gothic
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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, Ambros...

• Dec-1952
• / General Fiction
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"Anyone starting this book under the impression that he may sleepily relax is in for a shock...continually provokes both pity and terror." --The Observer (UK) A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock i...

• Dec-1952
• / Suspense
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"Anyone starting this book under the impression that he may sleepily relax is in for a shock...continually provokes both pity and terror." --The Observer (UK) A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock i...

• Dec-1952
• / Psychological Suspense
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"Anyone starting this book under the impression that he may sleepily relax is in for a shock...continually provokes both pity and terror." --The Observer (UK) A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock i...

• Dec-1952
• / Suspense
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"Anyone starting this book under the impression that he may sleepily relax is in for a shock...continually provokes both pity and terror." --The Observer (UK) A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock i...

• Dec-1952
• / Suspense
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"Anyone starting this book under the impression that he may sleepily relax is in for a shock...continually provokes both pity and terror." --The Observer (UK) A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock i...

• Dec-1952
• / Suspense
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"Anyone starting this book under the impression that he may sleepily relax is in for a shock...continually provokes both pity and terror." --The Observer (UK) A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock i...

• Dec-1952
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• Dec-1952
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• Jan-1954
• / Gothic
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Early Stories includes: Panic, La Sainte-Vierge, A Difference in Temperament, And Now to God the Father, Adieu Sagesse, Frustration, Piccadilly, Tame Cat, Mazie, The Supreme Artist, Angels and Archangels, Indiscretion, Fairy Tale, The Closing Door, T...

• 1954
• / Gothic
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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 provok...

• 1957
• / Gothic
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By chance, John and Jean -- one English, the other French -- meet in a provincial railway station. Their resemblance to each other is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John falls into a drunken stupor. It...

• 1959
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• Dec-1959
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• Dec-1959
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• Dec-1959
• / Gothic
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Little Ben is shut away in a cupboard, too, at the beginning…. And someone had an ‘evil-smelling cloth to wipe his mouth’, to wipe out any sick....

• Dec-1959
• / Gothic
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• Dec-1959
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1959
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1959
• / General Fiction
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LADY BEWARE! Every Sunday afternoon James Fenton and his wife took their usual walk -- every Sunday afternoon. The pattern never changed. Then Fenton reached his breaking point. The idea of escape had never occurred to him before. But sudden...

• Dec-1959
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1962
• / Gothic
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Sweeping across a century of human passion and political tumult, THE GLASS BLOWERS is a thrilling saga of the French Revolution and one extraordinary family. -- There is Mathurin Busson, patriarch and proud master glass-blower; Magdaleine, his love...

• Jan-1965
• / Gothic
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As a young Italian courier for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio led a pleasant, if humdrum life -- until he became circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome, a woman who had suddenly and startlingly reminded Armino of someo...

• Jan-1966
• / Gothic
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John and Laura are on holiday in Venice, but it is a dangerous place for them as they are being followed by two old sisters and there is a killer on the loose. A pair of grief stricken parents and a strange set of psychic sisters whose vision of f...

• Jan-1966
• / Gothic
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Collecting five stories of suspense, mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier''s Don''t Look Now and Other Stories includes an introduction by Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, in Penguin Modern Classics.

John and Laura hav...

• Mar-1968
• / Gothic
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Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himsel...

• Dec-1971
• / Gothic
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Collecting five stories of suspense, mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier''s Don''t Look Now and Other Stories includes an introduction by Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, in Penguin Modern Classics.

John and Laura hav...

• Dec-1971
• / Gothic
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Collecting five stories of suspense, mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier''s Don''t Look Now and Other Stories includes an introduction by Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, in Penguin Modern Classics.

John and Laura hav...

• Dec-1971
• / Gothic
• 

Collecting five stories of suspense, mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier''s Don''t Look Now and Other Stories includes an introduction by Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, in Penguin Modern Classics.

John and Laura hav...

• Dec-1972
• / Gothic
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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, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in t...

• Oct-1976
• / Gothic
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Nine elegant tales of terror by a virtuoso storyteller, guaranteed to chill the spine and excite the imagination -- stories of bizarre obsession, startling clairvoyant visions, hideous death rituals, people compelled to kill what they love most -- wh...

• Feb-1978
• / General Fiction
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"All rising to great place is by a winding stair," wrote Sir Francis Bacon. It wasn't until he was 45 that Bacon's feet found the first step on that staircase, when King James I made him Solicitor-General, from where he rose through the ranks to beco...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
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The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
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The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
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The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
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The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
• 

The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
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The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
• 

The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
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The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
• 

The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
• 

The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
• 

The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
• 

The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Oct-1980
• / Gothic
• 

The short stories which Daphne du Maurier has written throughout her career have always had a haunting quality, and from two of them - The Birds and Don't Look Now - memorable films have been made. The fourteen tales included in the present volume we...

• Jun-2010
• / Suspense
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REBECCAMaxim de Winter's young wife is overwhelmed by his Cornish home of Manderley - and haunted by the presence of his dead first wife, Rebecca. One of the classic thrillers of all time.FRENCHMAN'S CREEKLady Dona St Columb yearns for a life of love...