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Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2: The House on the Strand; ...

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2: The House on the Strand; ...

Daphne Du Maurier

This omnibus also includes The Doll, a collection of some of du Maurier's most thrilling short stories.
Rule Britannia

Rule Britannia

Daphne Du Maurier

In this chilling novel of the future, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of a political, economic and military alliance between Britain and the United States.
Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne Du Maurier

The story is as gripping as Rebecca, as full of surprises as My Cousin Rachel ... affectionate, honest, unsentimental and perceptive' Daily Mail 'Convincing throughout .
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

Daphne Du Maurier

My godfather, Nick Kendall, came over the following day, bringing Louise with him. As there were no close relatives to summon, and only bequests to Seecombe and the other servants, with the customary donations to the poor in the parish, the ...
Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier

Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier

Tatiana de Rosnay

I’m sure my mother would have loved this book.” — Tessa Montgomery d’Alamein, daughter of Daphné du Maurier, as told to Pauline Sommelet in Point de Vue As a bilingual bestselling novelist with a mixed Franco-British bloodline and ...
Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

Nina Auerbach

Nina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & ...

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & ...

Daphne Du Maurier

Includes the novels Frenchman's Creek and Hungry Hill, and the story collection The Birds & Other Stories.
The Daphne Du Maurier Companion

The Daphne Du Maurier Companion

More editions

Featuring interviews with du Maurier's family and a long-lost short story by the author herself, this is the indispensable companion to her work.
Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination

Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination

A. Horner

Using the most recent work in Gothic and gender studies they enter the current debate on the nature of Female Gothic and raise questions about du Maurier's relationship to such a tradition.
Daphne

Daphne

Tatiana De Rosnay

Con una prosa impeccabile, Tatiana de Rosnay ci restituisce il romanzo della vita di una delle più complesse e tormentate figure di donna del Novecento, la scrittrice inglese Daphne du Maurier, autrice di romanzi come Rebecca, la prima ...
I'll Never Be Young Again

I'll Never Be Young Again

Daphne Du Maurier

The iron of the bridge felt hot under my hand.
Le treizième conte

Le treizième conte

Diane SETTERFIELD

Un passionnant mystère qui s'inscrit dans la veine du célèbre Rebecca de Daphné du Maurier.
Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now

Daphne Du Maurier

This adaptation of Don't Look Now premiered in 2007 at the Sheffield Lyceum with a transfer to the Lyric Hammersmith.
Rebecca

Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier

An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.
My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel

Daphne Du Maurier

My godfather, Nick Kendall, came over the following day, bringing Louise with him. As there were no close relatives to summon, and only bequests to Seecombe and the other servants, with the customary donations to the poor in the parish, the ...
Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn

Daphne Du Maurier

After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience.
Mountain Hideaway

Mountain Hideaway

Christy Barritt

Christy Barritt's books have won a Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Suspense and Mystery and have been twice nominated for the RT Reviewers' Choice Best Book Award. She's married to her Prince Charming, a man who thinks ...
Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959: A Comprehensive ...

Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959: A Comprehensive ...

R. Reginald

Jack lams David Charlson Mario Uchard Daphne du Maurier Will Ermine Eugene Burns Arthur Carhart Joseph Jastrow Helen W. Puner Lawrence Lariar Benn Towers Oreste Pinto Ray Hogan George Hopley Peter Hardin The frightened ...
Gone without a Trace (Logan Point Book #3): A Novel

Gone without a Trace (Logan Point Book #3): A Novel

Patricia Bradley

"--Lynette Eason, bestselling, award-winning author of the Hidden Identity series Patricia Bradley is the winner of a 2012 Daphne du Maurier Award and a 2012 Touched by Love Award and was also a finalist for the 2012 Genesis Award.
Shadows of the Past (Logan Point Book #1): A Novel

Shadows of the Past (Logan Point Book #1): A Novel

Patricia Bradley

Patricia Bradley is a published short story writer and is cofounder of Aiming for Healthy Families, Inc. Her manuscript for Shadows of the Past was a finalist for the 2012 Genesis Award, winner of a 2012 Daphne du Maurier Award (1st place,  ...
Rebecca (Study Guide): BookCaps Study Guide

Rebecca (Study Guide): BookCaps Study Guide

BookCaps Study Guides Staff

The perfect companion to Daphne Du Maurier’s "Rebecca," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes.
The Way We Wore

The Way We Wore

Daphne Selfe

Daphne Selfe has been photographed by Mario Testino, Nick Knight and David Bailey.
Gendered Spaces

Gendered Spaces

Daphne Spain

'A work of vaulting ambition and synthesis. Daphne Spain is asked about the relations among gender, power, and space, our dwellings and domains.
Best American Magazine Writing 2013

Best American Magazine Writing 2013

The American Society of Magazine Editors

Copyright © 2012 by Charles Graeber. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. “Portrait of a Lady,” by Daphne Merkin, originally published in Elle. Copyright © 2012 by Daphne Merkin. Reprinted by permission of Daphne Merkin . “Social ...
The Brother Of Daphne

The Brother Of Daphne

Dornford Yates

Daphne is ‘well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright’. In this, Yates’ earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures.
The Brother of Daphne

The Brother of Daphne

Dornford Yates

Daphne is 'well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright'. In this, Yates' earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures.
The Immortal Throne

The Immortal Throne

Bree Despain

Only Daphne's kiss can save him, but how can she escape Garrick and reach Haden in time? Surprises lurk around every corner in the final chapter of this epic romance story, as Haden and Daphne fight to fulfill their destinies.
The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, ...

The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, ...

Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to a wide array of subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life to the poignant underside ...
Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical ...

Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical ...

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DAPHNE MERKIN (1954- ) Carolyn Ariella Sofia BIOGRAPHY "Perfect sex is like some Platonic essence," notes Daphne Merkin in "The Woman in the Balcony," her reading of the biblical Song of Songs, because it takes ' 'place only in our ...
Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in ...

Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in ...

Daphne Spain

In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men.

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