Daphne du Maurier Libri

La seconda signora de Winter possiede giovinezza, avvenenza e un candore angelico, grazie anche al suo matrimonio con il ricco e affascinante Maxim. La sua nuova vita a Manderley, una magione principesca in Cornovaglia, è però offuscata dalla presenza costante di Rebecca, la prima moglie. Il fantasma di Rebecca, evocato dalla governante Mrs Danvers, tormenta la nuova signora, facendole sentire la propria inferiorità in bellezza, intelligenza e amore. Ogni angolo della casa sembra ricordarle che non potrà mai eguagliare Rebecca, e quando Maxim inizia a distaccarsi, la sua vita da favola rischia di trasformarsi in un incubo. Daphne Du Maurier, con il suo stile raffinato e un sarcasmo pungente, crea un intreccio melodrammatico che ricorda i romanzi neri di Ann Radcliffe, trasformandolo in un giallo avvincente. Il mistero più profondo è rappresentato dalla narratrice stessa, che rimane sempre senza nome, aggiungendo un ulteriore strato di inquietudine alla sua storia.

Cornovaglia, metà Ottocento. Philip Ashley è convinto di avere molti validi motivi per odiare Rachele, vedova dell’amato cugino Ambrose, venuto a mancare in circostanze poco chiare. Quando la bellissima e misteriosa Rachele lo raggiunge in Cornovaglia, tuttavia, Philip si scopre incapace di resistere al suo conturbante fascino. Ma chi è davvero Rachele? Una donna innamorata o un’arrampicatrice sociale che cerca soltanto di impadronirsi della sua ricchezza, come ha già fatto con il defunto marito? La seduzione, l’amore avventato, il sospetto diventano i protagonisti di questo romanzo, in un crescendo d’inquietudine di cui Daphne du Maurier è maestra indiscussa.

Una prigioniera, inconsapevole e abbandonata alle sue sole risorse; un sospetto crescente; un senso di terrore che si avverte all'inizio come strana inconsuetudine, per poi deflagrare; una sensualità che chiama irresistibile pur dal suo centro di perversione; un'incerta follia che non è che il volto assunto da una fanatica determinazione: e il male, che avvolge tutto e sembra sorgere dallo stesso paesaggio selvaggio, dalle rare architetture di una landa remota e posseduta dal vento. Pochi scrittori, come Daphne Du Maurier - e proprio quando, nel Novecento, il genere decadeva a serie ripetitive - hanno dominato tutti gli elementi della letteratura gotica popolare, riunendoli in architetture e intrecci che appartengono in pieno al romanzo realistico. Alla Giamaica - locanda della Cornovaglia, ma ai confini del mondo - la violenza e il delitto si nascondono e appaiono, agli occhi di una giovane orfana rifugiatasi lì per trovare una famiglia, per allusioni e misteri: un desiderio temerario di vita la tenta a cercare di sapere, una naturale innocenza la sospinge a confidare in chi ordisce la trama maligna.

Un noto romanzo della popolare autrice britannica conferma che il suo stile raffinato si sposa perfettamente con una trama avvincente che si svolge nei luoghi più pittoreschi dell'Europa settentrionale e occidentale. Quando il giovane Dick scappa da casa, dove pesa su di lui l'ombra opprimente di suo padre, un rispettato scrittore inglese, si trova di fronte ai conflitti interiori che tormentano ogni giovane sensibile, sfiorando la tentazione di fuggire in modo drammatico. A salvarlo è Jack, un ex detenuto, un uomo singolare, esperto e profondo, che gli insegna a vedere il mondo e le creature che lo abitano con occhi diversi. Un'emozionante traversata su una nave che sfida le intemperie, in cui Dick e Jack vengono assunti come membri dell'equipaggio, esperienze nella splendida natura incontaminata dei fiordi norvegesi, un viaggio attraverso le aspre creste montuose della Scandinavia e, infine, una tragedia mortale che stravolge la sua vita, sono solo l'inizio di un nuovo legame: l'amore per la giovane pianista Heste e la ricerca di se stesso nell'incantevole atmosfera di Parigi.

Il romanzo vuole essere la continuazione della nota opera di Daphne Du Maurier "Rebecca la prima moglie". Grande bestseller da quando venne pubblicato nel 1938, Rebecca è stato tradotto in 27 lingue e immortalato sullo schermo nel 1940 da Alfred Hitchcock. La Hill vuole narrare il destino dei protagonisti (Maxim e la seconda signora de Winter) al di là del finale voluto dalla Du Maurier. ci conduce nelle pieghe più nascoste del nuovo capitalismo sovietico.

This volume contains four novels: ■ Jamaica Inn ■ Rebecca ■ Frenchman's Creek ■ My Cousin Rachel

A happily married woman commits suicide for no apparent reason; a young man tries to break some important news to the beautiful girl he had hoped to marry; a con girl plays the same bold game too often and a novelist embarks on a romantic adventure but is woefully disappointed. In all these stories, glimpses into personal lives are vividly portrayed, but they are all written with warmth and are wonderfully evocative.

"Prime du Maurier. . . . She holds her characters close to reality; the past she creates is valid, and her skill in finessing the time shifts is enough to make one want to try a little of the brew."-"New York Times"

Menabilly was the du Maurier house in Cornwall.Oriel Malet has published the letters she received from Daphne over a 30-year span with links of her own thoughts.

Includes: The King's General, The House on the Strand, The Glass Blowers, Don't Look Now and other Short Stories. 8 complete stories from one of Britain's most famous authors.

In an age of poets and privateers, perfumed coutiers and scheming monarchs, three of the most extraordinary men in history played out their dashing roles against the tumultuous background of Queen Elizabeth's England. Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor, friend of kings and scholars, was perhaps the most billiant man of the realm. His brother, Anthony Bacon, survived scandal to become masterspy for the Crown. Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex and England's greatest hero, was betrayed into dishonor by his beloved but tempestuous queen....An absorbing historical saga

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A novel set in Cornwall at the time of Charles II, which tells the story of the relationship between a beautiful and capricious lady and a dangerous but attractive French pirate.

A novel of the loyalties, betrayals and rivalries of a glittering theatrical family - and the secrets they hide. From the author of Rebecca.

How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . ' A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verità' promises immortality, but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject's life; a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery; and a jealous father finds a remedy when three's a crowd . . .

[ Penguin Readers Level 2 ] The idea for this famous story came to du Maurier one day when she was walking across to Menabilly Barton farm from the house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field whilst above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed an idea about the birds becoming hostile and attacking him. In her story, the birds become hostile after a harsh winter with little food—first the seagulls, then birds of prey, and finally even small birds—all turn against mankind. The nightmarish vision appealed to Hitchcock who turned it into the celebrated film.

Der Horror, den die Vögel in dem kleinen Küstenort Bodega Bay verbreiten, ist seit Hitchcocks Verfilmung jedem Leser gegenwärtig. Aber natürlich ist da auch noch das Drama zwischen Mitch, Melanie und Anne. Und die Frage des Überlebens bleibt offen. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

Daphne du Mauriers mysteriöse Geschichte um das Ehepaar Baxter, bekannt durch den Film "Wenn die Gondeln Trauer tragen", bietet atemberaubende Spannung. Sie erzählt von Verlust, unheimlichen Begegnungen in Venedig und endet mit dem Mord an John Baxter. Die ungekürzte Textausgabe enthält Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter und Literaturhinweise.

Gripping and complex, this is a masterful exploration of doubling and identity, and of the dark side of the self.

Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her subsequent marriage. Here, the writer is open and sometimes painfully honest about the difficult relationship with her father; her education in Paris; early love affairs; her antipathy towards London life and the theatre; her intense love for Cornwall and her desperate ambition to succeed as a writer. The resulting portrait is of a captivating and complex character.

In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination.

Alternate cover available here.Honor Harris is only 18 when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless—and utterly captivating. But following a riding accident, Honor must reconcile herself to a life alone. As Richard rises through the ranks of the army, marries and makes enemies, Honor remains true to him, and finally discovers the secret of Menabilly.

Daphne du Maurier and Cornwall belong together as surely as Hardy and Dorset, or Dickens and Christmas. Miss du Maurier has made Cornwall her home for most of her life and has shown her love and knowledge of all things Cornish in some of her greatest successes, Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek, Jamaica Inn and many of her other much-loved books. In this book she and her son Christian Browning, the photographer, chronicle aspects of that legendary peninsula which may not be with us very much longer

The celebrated biography of Gerald du Maurier, last of the great actor- managers, by his daughter.

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 which their fortunes and fates are so closely bound.

In 'The Doll', a waterlogged notebook is washed ashore. Its pages tell a dark story of obsession and jealousy. But the fate of its narrator is a mystery. Many of the stories in this haunting collection have only recently been discovered. Most were written early in Daphne du Maurier's career, yet they display her mastery of atmosphere, tension and intrigue and reveal a cynicism far beyond her years.

A carefully graded series of retold versions of popular classic and contemporary titles and specially written stories continue to grow and there are now over 170 titles in the series. Most titles are available with Audio CDs and most include accompanying exercises and glossaries.

Cinema audiences all over the world enjoy a good ghost story, and for over half a century stories by the famous writers of supernatural fiction have been adapted for the screen. Classics of the Supernatural brings together the best of these chilling, inspirational tales.Collected here for the first time are short stories and self-contained episodes from works which inspired such classic pictures as The Old Dark House, The Ghost goes West, Dead Of Night, Ghost Story and Beetlejuice. As several of these stories have not appeared in paperback before or have long been out of print, Classics of the Supernatural is a must for anyone who loves a chilling tale.Content (in the book's contents list, movie titles are used):- Halloween's Child (Haunted) by James Herbert- Night Sequence (The Old Dark House) by J.B. Priestley- Sir Tristram Goes West (The Ghost Goes West) by Eric Keown- A Smokey Lady in Knickers (Topper) by Thorne Smith- Samhain (The Uninvited) by Dorothy Macardle- The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy (Dead Of Night) by Gerald Kersh- Casting the Runes (Night Of The Demon) by M.R. James- The Bus (The Haunting) by Shirley Jackson- The Trespassers (The Stone Tape) by Nigel Kneale- Lucy Comes To Stay (Asylum) by Robert Bloch- Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier- Harlequin (Halloween) by John Carpenter- Halley's Passing (Beetlejuice) by Michael McDowell

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 home her artist husband Evan for the first time and Stella is shocked by the bohemian incompleteness of their marriage. She finds herself attracted to Evan and soon they are passionately in although much is left unspoken, Evan eventually compels Stella to admit her feelings.-3 women, 3 men

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.

Daphne Du Maurier's story of sex, society and scandal, based on the life of her great-great-grandmother. Cockney girl Mary Anne has known the grinding heel of poverty. Now, with beauty, brains and ambition, and the glittering decadence of Regency London to sustain her, she becomes a Royal mistress.

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 skills were perfectly suited to the task of completing the old master's tale. The result is this magical, compelling recreation of the legend of Tristan and Iseult, transplanted in time to the Cornwall of the last century. A chance encounter between the Breton onion-seller, Amyot Trestane, and the newly-wed Linnet Lewarne launches their tragic story, taking them in the fateful footsteps of the doomed lovers of Cornish legend ...

Part of the 'Penguin Active Reading' series, this book provides a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills and consolidate vocabulary, and offers personalised project work.

"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 become Lord Chancellor. Many accounts of the life of Sir Francis Bacon have been written for scholars, but du Maurier's aim was to paint a vivid portrait of this remarkable man for the common reader. In "The Winding Stair," she illuminates the considerable achievements of this Renaissance man as a writer, lawyer, philosopher, scientist, and politician. Dame Daphne du Maurier wrote more than 25 acclaimed novels, short stories, and plays, including "Rebecca" and "The House on the Strand. "She was also a passionate and skillful biographer.

From India: Inhibition, in this story, is a cousin to The Seven Year Itch. From Scotland: Dancing is not always a primitive sex rite. Anyone familiar with military history will tell that the dancing Scotch soldiers are among the toughest in the world. From Malaysia: As pigs are pigs, ingrates are ingrates. From England: You'll probably start with a chuckle and end with a howl as this dog-lover goes all-out for her dog. All stories in this issue are reprinted full and unabridged.

Enthält folgende Erzählungen: Der Vielgeliebte, Die Großherzogin, Träum erst wenn es dunkel wird, Engel und Erzengel, Ganymed, Die Zeit heilt alles, Ein Ausrutscher, Kleine Ehedifferenzen, Panik und Primadonna.

Man kennt die Autorin als Verfasserin von Romanen, die immer neue Lesergenerationen begeistern. Mit Büchern wie Rebecca oder Meine Cousine Rachel hat sie sich Weltruhm erschrieben. Aber die noch eindrucksvollere Begabung der Daphne Du Maurier liegt auf einem anderen Gebiet: der Novelle, der klassischen short story. Hier hat sie es zu einer Meisterschaft gebracht, die ihr Vergleiche mit Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant und anderen großen Erzählern eintrugen. Tatsächlich vermag kaum eine heutige Autorin das Hintergründige im Menschen raffinierter und brillanter bloßzulegen. Ein Beweis dafür ist dieser Band. Jede seiner Erzählungen verrät etwas von der Doppelbödigkeit der Wirklichkeit, jedes dieser Kabinnettstücke überrascht durch seine schicksalhafte Pointe: subtile Meisterwerke voll unheimlicher Visionen und Todesdrohungen.

Ein Grenzfall - Erzählungen - bk1788; Büchergilde Gutenberg; Daphne du Maurier; Paperback; 1982

Das Urlaubsglück eines jungen Ehepaares wird getrübt, als es in Venedig zwei merkwürdigen Schwestern mit übersinnlichen Fähigkeiten begegnet.

City Crimes - Die besten Morde aus den Metropolen - bk1378; Scherz Verlag; Amanda Cross, Colin Dexter, Daphne du Maurier, u.v.a.; pocket_book; 2000

Die Novellen Daphne du Mauriers sind erzählerische Kabinettstücke. Kaum ein heutiger Autor vermag das Unheimliche und Unberechenbare raffinierter und brillanter bloßzulegen. „Sie erweitert die Wirklichkeit um jenen Bereich, der uns sonst nur in Träumen begegnet“, sagte Alfred Hitchcock.

Enthält die Novellen- Das Geleitschiff- Zum Tode erwacht- Das Alibi- Die gespaltene Sekunde

Plötzlich an jenem Abend - bk988; Droemer Knaur; Daphne du Maurier; pocket_book; 1978

Abenteuer und Romantik, Moral und Charakter sind die Themen Daphne Du Mauriers. Wie viele ihrer Geschichten spielt auch der 'Kleine Fotograf' in der feinen Gesellschaft. 'Andere Frauen haben Liebhaber.' Dieser Gedanke geht der schönen Marquise nicht aus dem Sinn, während sie sich alleine mit den Kindern am Meer langweilt. Und so bleibt sie gegenüber den Annäherungsversuchen eines glühenden Verehrers nicht gleichgültig. Erst als er sie mit 'unanständigen' Fotos erpreßt, erkennt sie, worauf sie sich eingelassen hat.

From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic.

DAPHNE DU MAURIER patrí k najznámejším a najpopulárnejším anglosaským spisovateľkám, najmä vďaka svetovému úspechu románu Rebeka (1938). Pochádza z rodiny s umeleckými tradíciami — jej otec bol slávnym hercom a režisérom a starý otec obľúbeným karikaturistom a spisovateľom. Po výchove doma a v Paríži začala autorka r. 1928 písať články a poviedky a r. 1931 vydala prvý román Milujúci duch. Nasledovali ďalšie romány, otcov životopis a Rebeka, ktorá sa dočkala tridsiatich deviatich anglických vydaní, preložili ju do vyše dvadsiatich jazykov a slávny Alfred Hitchcock nakrútil podľa nej film s Laurencom Olivierom v hlavnej úlohe. Z jej neskoršej tvorby vynikajú dva romány, ktoré teraz predkladáme našim čitateľom; Francúzova zátoka vyšla r. 1941 a Hladný vrch r. 1943.

Panik - bk2022; Droemer Knaur Verlag; Daphne du Maurier; pocket_book; 1900