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A Different Sound - Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers by Elizabeth Bowen; Daphne du Maurier; Elizabeth Taylor; Lucy Scholes (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland--many being published in America for the first time These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and pro ...Show more
Castle Dor by DU MAURIER DAPHNE
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
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 by his daughter to Daphne du Maurier whose storytelling sk ...Show more
Don't Look Now (Pocket Penguin) by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Classic | Series: Pocket Penguins
'Now, ill-lit, almost in darkness, the windows of the houses shuttered, the water dank, the scene appeared altogether different, neglected, poor, and the long narrow boots moored to the slippery steps of cellar entrances looked like coffins.' A slow-burning masterpiece of horror recounting a grieving co ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that, instead of laying their ghosts to rest, they become caught up in a train of strange events. This volume contains stories that exp ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories (Penguin Decades) by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Decades
The 1970s was a decade of anger and discontent. Britain endured power cuts and strikes. America pulled out of Vietnam and saw its President resign from office. Feminism and face lifts vied for women's hearts (and minds). And prog rock, punk and disco weren't just music but for some were ways of life. Da ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories (Popular Penguins Crime) by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A grieved couple depart to Venice after the sudden death of their daughter. Here the visions of a blind psychic push their already fragile relationship to its limits. Will they heed her warnings or disregard the ramblings of an old woman; and at what cost? In this work of short stories, Du Maurier parad ...Show more
Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier
Category: Fiction
A MASTERPIECE OF HYPNOTIC SUSPENSE from the bestselling author of Rebecca "In du Maurier's fiction, she unflinchingly exposed hard truths." -Times of London Master storyteller Daphne du Maurier, bestselling author of Rebecca, conjures a chilling tale in which the line between good and evil is blurred a ...Show more
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier, Dam Dam Dam
Category: Fiction
Daphne du Maurier's Frenchman's Creek is the scandalous tale of one woman's will to seize adventure by the horns and become the fugitive of her own fate.
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
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. It is this Dona who flees the stews of London for remote ...Show more
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Jaded by the numbing politeness of Restoration London, Lady Dona St. Columb revolts against high society. She rides into the countryside, guided only by her restlessness and her longing to escape. But when chance leads her to meet a French pirate, hidden within Cornwall's shadowy forests, Dona discovers ...Show more