Daphne Du Maurier

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Title: Rebecca: Description:
Classic book. Du Maurier's masterpiece weaves a special magic that no one who reads it will ever forget.

Title: The Scapegoat: Description:
penquin 1964

Title: Don't Look Now And Other Stories: Not After Midnight; A Border-line Case; The Way Of The Cross; The Breakthrough: Description:
julie christie on cover

Title: Vanishing Cornwall: Description:
For thirty years Cornwall has provided the background for Daphne Du Maurier`s most famous novels, `Jamacia Inn, My Cousin Rachel, Rebecca. here she tells of the County itself, of the people, their history, customs and superstitions dating back to pagan times.

Title: The Rendezvous And Other Stories: Description:
The stories in this collection, some written before du Maurier published her first novel, reflect many human emotions: romance, disenchantment, fantasy, nostalgia, ambition, irony, the longing for adventure. Each of them is based on something observed, something overheard, and all will provide pleasure for every mood. About the Author In many ways the life of Daphne du Maurier resembles that of a fairy tale. Born into a family with a rich artistic and historical background, the daughter of a famous actor-manager, she was indulged as a child and grew up enjoying enormous freedom from financial and parental restraint. She spent her youth sailing boats, travelling on the Continent with friends, and writing stories. A prestigious publishing house accepted her first novel when she was in her early twenties, and its publication brought her not only fame but the attentions of a handsome soldier, Major (later Lieutenant-General Sir) Frederick Browning, who married her. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Title: House On The Strand: Description:
A novel set in the Cornwall of today as well as that of the 14th-century, where a young writer uses a new dangerous drug to transport himself back in time.

Title: Rule Britannia: Description:
The Americans seize England and one woman defies them. US marines land in Cornwall and Mad-a world famous ex-actress-autocratic and irresistible, rallies her family, friends and neighbours to protect their heritage.

Title: The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise And Fall: Description:
Francis Bacon, his rise and fall. In the quarter century that followed his broyher Anthony`s death, Francis Bacon climbed the winding stair of Jacobean politics. He rose from obscurity to become Lord Chancellor, Lord keeper of the Great seal, qa writer and thinker who influenced generations of scientists and philosophers. Then came the charges of corruption, the fall from grace and imprisonment in the Tower of London. Illustrated with b/w plates set in the middle of the book.

Title: Golden Lads: A Study Of Anthony Bacon, Francis, And Their Friends: Description:
Anthony Bacon, elder brother of the famous Francis, is a darkly enigmatic figure from the glittering Elizabethan age. His strange and fascinating story moves from the London of Shakespeare`s playhouses to the court of Henri of Navarre at Montauban. Tainted with scandal and enmeshed in espionage, Anthony`s star-crossed life moves inexorably towards his mysterious death at the age of forty three. Illustrated with b/w plates set in the middle pages.

Title: The Flight Of The Falcon: Description:
It is over 500 years since Duke Claudio the Falcon lived his brutal, twisted life in Ruffano. But this is the 20th century. The town has forgotten it`s violent history. It`s university has a shiny new Commerce and Economics building; pointing to a golden future . But have things really changed?. The horrifying flight of the modern Falcon is about to begin.

Title: The Flight Of The Falcon: Description:
ArminoFabbio 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 learns, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. Over five hundred years before, the sinister Duke Claudio, known as The Falcon, lived his twisted, brutal life preying on the people of Ruffano. Now, in the twentieth century, the town seems to have forgotten its violent history. But have things really changed? The parallels between the past and present begin to converge in this masterpience of haunting atmosphere and hypnotic suspense.

Title: Frenchman's Creek (virago Modern Classics): Description:
Geart story of a lady and a gentalman pirate

Title: Mary Anne: Description:
Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970. '"Mary Anne" is Daphne du Maurier's frank account of the life of her great-great-grandmothe who for a time lived under the protection of the Duke of York during the Napoleonic Wars.'

Title: The Progress Of Julius: Description:
London: Arthur Barker, 1948. Daphne du Maurier’s third novel, first published by William Heinemann in 1933, concerns the ambitious, ruthless and evil entrepreneur, Julius Levy, whose obsession with his daughter, and inability to let her go, results in his murdering her. The story moves from the France and Paris of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), during which France suffered defeat and humiliation, to Algeria and then London, as Julius develops his chain of restaurants, builds up his business empire, and achieves the appearance of respectability through public recognition, marriage and family life. The story ends with his return to France, where he eventually suffers a stroke and dies.

Title: Golden Lads: A Study Of Anthony Bacon, Francis And Their Friends: Description:
London: Victor Gollancz, 1975. ‘Anthony Bacon [1558 – 1601] – the elder brother of Francis, philosopher, essayist and statesman – is a mysterious figure in history. He was a contemporary of the brilliant band of gallants who clustered round the court of Elizabeth I, the “golden lads”...he acted as an agent in France for Sir Francis Walsingham, the Secretary of State, who ran a vast intelligence network...he was closely connected with the Earl of Essex..Daphne du Maurier has based her fascinating biography on much original research...the vast collections of Anthony’s correspondence in London and Washington...her search has also taken her to France...As one would expect, she has written a marvellously readable tale which combines her very special narrative powers with a remarkable picture of the period and of Anthony himself’. 10 colour and 32 black white plates. BIbliography. List of Sources. Index.

Title: Talking Classics: Rebecca: Description:
Running time 2hours 25 mins

Title: Jamaica Inn: Description:
When Mary Yellan, a farmer's daughter from Helford, obeyed her mother's dying wish and went to live with her aunt near Bodmin, she had no idea that her attractive, laughing relative was married to the landlord of Jamaica Inn, miles from anywhere on Bodmin Moor. As the coachman warned her: 'Respectable folk don't go to Jamaica any more'. And as her evil giant of an uncle soon told her, after a few glasses of brandy: 'I'm not drunk enough to tell you why I live in this God-forgotten spot, and why I'm the landlord of Jamaica Inn.' In her first famous novel Daphne du Maurier transferred the world of the Bronte's to Cornwall in the early nineteenth century. In the dark events along the Cornish coast, in the ugly brutality of Joss Merlyn, and in the enigmatic character of his brother Jem, the reader gets an exciting foretaste of her next novel, Rebecca.

Title: The Parasites: Description:
The Parasites is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1950. In this novel, Miss du Maurier tells the story of the Delaney family. The Delaney's led complex and frequently scandalous lives; their strange relationship with each other closed their circle to all outsiders; the world in which they lived was sophisticated, gay, and sometimes tragic. Maria Delaney was a beautiful, successful actress, the wife of Sir Charles Wyndham. Niall Delaney wrote the songs and melodies that everyone sang and played. Celia their sister, generous and charming, took care of their father and delighted in Maria's children. Between Maria and Niall there existed a strange affinity--sometimes physical, sometimes spiritual. They were both subtly aware of it, and so was Sir Charles. Perhaps it was this that impelled Maria's husband to exclaim bitterly: "Parasites, that's what you are. The three of you. You always have been and you always will be. Nothing can change you. You are doubly, triply parasitic; first, because you've traded since childhood on that seed of talent you had the luck to inherit from your fantastic forebears; secondly, because none of you have done a stroke of honest work in your lives but batten on us, the fool public; and thirdly, because you prey on each other, living in a world of fantasy which bears no relation to anything in heaven or on earth." The novel has a beautifully crafted structure - ostensibly one long series of flashbacks, but cleverly weaving the present and the past of the three siblings ('the parasites') together, and using the unique (it is thought) device of the first person - and yet not defining which of the three at any time is narrating. Indeed, since the narrator - who must be one of three - mentions all three in the third person during his or her narrations, then at the same time technically can't be one of them! An intriguing and highly successful device.

Title: Mary Anne: Description:
A novel, quite openly based on actual historical records relating to Miss du Maurier's great, great grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke. It is made to order material for a colourful period novel, a sort of feminine ""rake's progress"", in which the reader's sympathies are patently enlisted on the side of Mary Anne despite her record. From an insecure slum childhood, when she had to trick her elders in order to obtain a bare pittance for family survival, Mary Anne knew that she must aim high, never allow sentiment to interfere, and still what might be called her conscience. Her teenage marriage to a four flusher and drunkard served to reinforce her determination, and for one man only did she allow a flicker of emotion to sway her, now and again. She became the mistress of the Duke of York -- and he never quite got over her, though he discarded her when her drunken sot of a husband threatened exposure, and though she dragged him through the mud of an investigation. The other men in her train were mere time servers, useful in the upward climb -- and some of them turned on her when her star was getting. But somehow she never lost her gallantry, her poise, and the thing each of the men important to her life remembered was her smile. She died-after those who mattered had gone, an exile from the England she loved. But her story read today brings to light a period in England's history when society was ridden by pretence and connivance, when services and preferments were bought and sold, when reputations rose and fell. Daphne du Maurier is a vivid story teller; she has spun this tale a bit beyond its holding power, but she has drawn a memorable figure.