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The Breaking Point by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: VMC
'The apathy of Sunday lay upon the streets. Houses were closed, withdrawn. "They don't know," he thought, "those people inside, how one gesture of mine, now, at this minute, might alter their world. A knock on the door, and someone answers - a woman yawning, an old man in carpet slippers, a child sent b ...Show more
The Breakthrough (Mini Modern Classics) by Daphne du Maurier; Anon
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere?On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself.
The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
'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 had been a dream.' In 'The Doll', a waterlogged notebook is ...Show more
The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier
Category: Classic
As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life -- until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. He r ...Show more
The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life - until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. He re ...Show more
The Flight of the Falcon (Audio CD; unabridged; 9 CDs) by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Audio Books
As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life - until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. He re ...Show more
The Glass-Blowers by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath, shatter and destroy it' Faithful to her ...Show more
The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Virago Modern Classics
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 biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th cent ...Show more
The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Biography Memoir
As a bold and gifted child, Branwell Bronte's promise seemed boundless to the three adoring sisters over whom his rule was complete. But as an adult, the precocious flame of genius distorted and burned low. With neither the strength nor the resources to counter rejection, unable to sell his paintings or ...Show more
The King's General by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
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 and a family riven by war, and features one of fiction's most ...Show more
The Loving Spirit (FS) by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
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, and settles down to raise a family. Janet's loving s ...Show more
The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
By chance, two men - one English, the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Their physical resemblance is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John, the Englishman, falls into a drunken stupour. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wa ...Show more