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Fiction: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, et al. (2004) - 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.' These famous words open the most popular novel by Daphne du Maurier, the story of an intense romance set in a mysterious house in Cornwall. Its unforgettable atmosphere and tension has transformed it from a popular romance on the page and on film to become a modern classic. Here, it is presented in a new and absorbing recording by Emma Fielding.£16.99
Rebecca' by Daphne Du Maurier - Examine how the author users narrative voice to show the development of the central character and how she achieves self realisation - "Rebecca" by Daphne Du Maurier is a romantic and psychological thriller in which a shy young girl, lacking in self confidence, grows up to be a strong confidence woman. Throughout the first half of the novel her self esteem is eroded by the other characters. I intend to examine how the author users narrative voice to show the development of the central character and how she achieves self realisation. "Rebecca" is about a shy young girl who marries a much older sophisticated wealthy man, Maxim...£4.00
Fiction: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, et al. (2003) - Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier, is gothic melodrama at its best; a young girl recently married tries to escape the ghost of her new husband's dead wife. A good one for rainy nightsd by the fire with a cup of hot chocolate!£5.99
Talking Classics on two cassettes, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - Talking classics read by Simon Williams. An Orbis Classics Collection with magazine.£2.99
Music, Stage and Screen: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (2002) £8.99
The novel Rebecca written by Daphne Du Maurier was an intense, gripping and very enjoyable read - ... story how Rebecca died. At first it is thought to be due to a tragic boating accident, as Rebecca and her boat went missing on the night of a terrible storm. But we learn as we read that this simple explanation is not true. Mystery surrounds her death, as well as her life. There is also a sense of relief and thankfulness that the past has been laid to rest. We come to this conclusion as the heroine says, "The house was a sepulchre, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins". The use of...£4.99
Biography: The Du Mauriers - Virago Modern Classics by Daphne Du Maurier, et al. (2004) - When Daphne du Maurier wrote this book she was only thirty years old and had already established herself both as a biographer, with the acclaimed Gerald: A Portrait, and as a novelist. The Du Mauriers was written during a vintage period of her career, between two of her best-loved novels: Jamaica Inn and Rebecca. Her aim was to write her family biography 'so that it reads like a novel' and it was due to du Maurier's remarkable imaginative gifts that she was able to breathe life into the...£7.99
Fiction: Daphne Du Maurier Collection by Daphne Du Maurier (2006) - Containing her best-loved work, including REBECCA, JAMAICA INN and FRENCHMAN'S CREEK, this is the definitive audio collection of Daphne du Maurier's novels. The wondeful evocations of the Westcountry landscape and the tense intrigue of the plots are as vivid now as they ever were. Read by John Nettles, Samantha Bond and Emilia Fox.£29.99
Golden Lads by Daphne Du Maurier - A Study of Anthony Bacon, Francis and Their Friends£6.83
Rule Britannia by Daphne Du Maurier - 'It is rather awful, Emma thought as she walked across the fields down to the farm, how this business is leading us all into subterfuge and deception, and we can't really tell who is friend and who is enemy ...' Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cosy existence she shares with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbour. As the two women piece together clues about the 'friendly...£6.07
The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne Du Maurier - Daphne du Maurier was born in 1906 and educated at home and in Paris. She began writing in 1928, and many of her bestselling novels were set in Cornwall, where she lived for most of her life. She was made a DBE in 1969 and died in 1989.£6.07
The Glass-Blowers by Daphne Du Maurier - 'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath, shatter and destroy it' Faithful to her word, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it...£6.07
Hungry Hill by Daphne Du Maurier - 1943 First Edition BOOK in orange cloth hardcover, some bumping to corners, fading & spotting to spine. PAGES with slight tanning to edges & to edge of page block.£1.95
Mary Anne by Daphne Du Maurier - from DJ; It was only to be expected thatfeminine curiosity would bearoused when Daphne du Maurier,delving into her family history, cameacross a Royal edict demanding theburning of the memoirs of her ancestor Mary Anne Clarke.Fortunately, further researches provided sufficient material for Miss duMaurier to reconstruct the excitinglife story of this colourful personality,who was brought up in the squalidsurroundings of a London slumtowards the end of the eighteenthcentury. She married young, aridsoon...£0.30
The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier - The Book Club Edition. BOOK in cream cloth hardcovers, bumping to corners & edges. PAGES slightly tanned but clean, flat & tight, grubby to bottom edge & corner of page block. DJ bumped to corners, some curling & wear to top & bottom edges, 2cm tear & some nibbling to top & bottom edges of back cover & to spine ends, some tanning to back cover, used appearance.£0.49
Biography: Daphne Du Maurier by Margaret Forster (1998) - "Rebecca", published in 1938, brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the popular imagination with its haunting atmosphere of suspense and mystery. But the more fame this and her other books encouraged, the more reclusive "Daphne du Maurier" became. Margaret Forster's award-winning biography could hardly be more worthy of its subject. Drawing on private letters and papers, and with the unflinching co-operation of Daphne du Maurier's family, Margaret Forster explores the secret...£6.99
Fiction: The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier (1981) - Ever since Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier has regularly disconcerted those critics who seem to assume that, to be great, a writer must be dull, obscure, and pretentious. The Scapegoat, which is none of these, is both an unashamed best-seller and by any test, a great novel. The extraordinary story takes hold of the reader and never lets go; the setting in a French chateau in these times is wholly real; the prose is simple and assured; and finally, the characters speak, act, and react precisely as they...£17.99
Biography: Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon, Francis and Their Friends - Virago Modern Classics 529 by Daphne Du Maurier, et al. (2007) - Prior to the publication of this biography, the elusive Anthony Bacon was merely glimpsed in the shadow of his famous younger brother, Francis. A fascinating historical figure, Anthony Bacon was a contemporary of the brilliant band of gallants who clustered round the court of Elizabeth I, and he was closely connected with the Queen's favourite, the Earl of Essex. He also worked as an agent for Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen's spymaster, living in France where he became acquainted with Henri...£8.99
Biography: Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer - Virago Modern Classics by Daphne Du Maurier, et al. (2004) - 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...£7.99
Education: "Dream" and Other Stories - Penguin Longman Active Reading by Daphne Du Maurier, et al. (2007) - "Dream" and Other Stories - Penguin Longman Active Reading by Daphne Du Maurier , Frank Tilsley , D.H. Lawrence , John Collier , W.J. Lederer , Eugene Burdick , Cyril Hare£7.30
Fiction: Castle Dor by Daphne Du Maurier, et al. (2004) - 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...£7.99
Fiction: I'll Never be Young Again - Virago Modern Classics 515 by Daphne Du Maurier, et al. (2005) - 'Du Maurier's descriptions of riding in Norwegian mountains, of life before the mast and in foreign capitals ring as true as her transcription of a young man's thoughts and talk' PUNCH 'Amazingly vivid' SATURDAY REVIEW£7.99
Fiction: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier, et al. (2003) - Thrillingly exciting, beautifully written, passionate but never sentimental, Jamaica Inn is perhaps the most accomplished historical romance (in the proper sense of the word) ever written. It is set in early 19th-century Cornwall, at a time when the forces of order are gradually beginning to curb the reckless lawlessness of this wild region. After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan decides to leave her peaceful home in South Cornwall and travel up country to live with her Aunt Patience, who...£5.99
Fiction: Julius by Daphne Du Maurier, et al. (2004) - 'His first instinct was to stretch out his hands to the sky. The white clouds seemed so near to him, surely they were easy to hold and to caress, strange-moving things belonging to the wide blue space of heaven ...' Julius Levy grows up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape to Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease of swindling, the rewards of love affairs and the value of...£7.99
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