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A classic tale of murder, mystery and romance by one of the twentieth-century's best storytellers. Now a prime-time BBC drama.

Max de Winter brings his shy young bride to Manderley, his great house in Cornwall. Everywhere, she senses the overpowering presence of Rebecca, Max's drowned wife. Mrs Danvers, the grim housekeeper, will not allow her to forget her shortcomings. She doubts Max's love until Rebecca's body is found. Max confesses that he murdered Rebecca, hating her depravity. The husband and wife now face the exciting fight to save Max from the gallows.|3 wome...

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 love: although much is left unspoken, Evan eventually compe...

* A fascinating investigation of the creation of one of the most famous novels of all time

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Considerata per anni una scrittrice romantica, Daphne du Maurier è oggi ritenuta una maestra dell'attesa, dell'irresolutezza oltre che un'autrice letteraria a tutti gli effetti. A rendere indimenticabili le sue storie contribuiscono la profondità delle analisi psicologiche, la continua suspense, la maestria con cui descrive personalità ossessive e atmosfere inquietanti. Il celebre racconto reso immortale dal film di Alfred Hitchcock, è qui rip...

Una coppia decide di visitare Venezia nel tentativo di superare il trauma per la morte della figlia, e la loro strada si incrocia con quella di un'inquietante coppia di gemelle. Un tranquillo turista inglese in vacanza a Creta apprende un'antica e sgradevole verità sulla natura umana. In un laboratorio isolato un gruppo di scienziati cerca di scoprire l'essenza dell'anima. In questi racconti Daphne du Maurier fa scaturire il mistero e l'imprev...

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.

* du Maurier uses a novelist's skill to portray this 'unknown' Bronte

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, ...

A LUSH GENERATIONAL NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA...In her acclaimed debut, celebrated author Daphne du Maurier weaves a stunning tale of heartbreaking loss and undying love that knows no bounds. Janet, a fearless young woman of soaring strength, longs for the wildness and freedom of the sea. She feels herself pulled fast under its spell, yet she sacrifices her dreams in order to create a family. Years later, when she learns of ...

Daphne du Maurier has no equal." Sunday Telegraph As civil war rages across England, the weak prove their courage and the privileged become traitors

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Classic horror stories by one of masters of the form. Full of bone-chilling tales, this collection includes "The Birds, " the basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same title, and other creepy classics. Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life-love, grief, jealousy-into the stuff...

From the bestselling author of "Rebecca, " another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall.

The only hardcover edition of the beloved, internationally best-selling gothic mystery. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. The unassuming young heroine of Rebecca finds her life changed overnight when she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome and wealthy widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Rescuing her from an overbearing employer, de Winter whisks her off to Manderley, his isolated estate on the windswept Corni...

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Dick Young stays in his friend Professor Magnus Lane's house in Cornwall, on the understanding he will be a guinea-pig for a new drug that Magnus has developed. As a result of the experiment he is transported back to fourteenth century Cornwall. With each 'trip' he becomes more and more involved with medieval intrigue, adultery and murder. Is it merely hallucination, a subconscious escape from his own complicated life, or a real journey into t...