Daphne du Maurier Libros

Una joven heroína de "Rebecca" de Daphne du Maurier ve cómo su vida cambia de la noche a la mañana al conocer a Maxim de Winter, un atractivo y adinerado viudo que le propone matrimonio de manera inesperada. Rescatada de un empleador autoritario, de Winter la lleva a Manderley, su aislada finca en la costa de Cornualles, pero allí las cosas toman un giro escalofriante. Max parece estar atormentado por la memoria de su glamorosa primera esposa, Rebecca, cuyo legado es cuidadosamente mantenido por la siniestra ama de llaves, la Sra. Danvers. A medida que la segunda Sra. de Winter se siente cada vez más agobiada por la sombra de su misteriosa predecesora, se determina a descubrir los oscuros secretos que amenazan su felicidad, sin importar el costo. La novela explora temas de identidad, celos y la lucha por la autonomía en un entorno opresivo.

Philip Ashley, el narrador de esta novela, es un joven huérfano que ha sido criado por su primo Ambrose, un terrateniente de Cornualles veinte años mayor que él, en una gran casa aislada, de rutinas amables e incontestadas, sin conflictos y sin mujeres. Cuando el primo debe viajar a Italia por razones de salud, conoce a una mujer, Rachel, una pariente lejana educada en Florencia, viuda de un conde que murió en un duelo y la dejó cubierta de deudas. Se casa con ella y poco después muere súbitamente. «Juré que todo lo que Ambrose hubiera pagado en dolor y sufrimiento se lo devolvería a la mujer que los había causado», se dice Philip al conocer la noticia. Pero apenas han pasado unas semanas y Rachel se presenta en Cornualles… y esa animosidad irracional que el joven sentía por ella se va convirtiendo poco a poco en una fascinación incontrolable que no disminuye a medida que las circunstancias de la muerte de su primo se revelan cada vez más sospechosas. Mi prima Rachel (1951) es una gran novela psicológica, llena de suspense, en la que Daphne du Maurier exploró, como en Rebeca, la in-fluencia fantasmal en una casa de una figura ausente. Es también un sutil estudio de lo que un hombre cree que es una mujer y del accidentado viaje que dan los prejuicios cuando se enfrentan a una realidad inesperada.

Los pájaros Monte Verita El manzano El pequeño fotógrafo Bésame otra vez, desconocido El anciano

El horror que los pájaros desatan en el pequeño pueblo costero de Bodega Bay es conocido por su representación en la famosa película de Hitchcock. Sin embargo, también se desarrolla un drama entre Mitch, Melanie y Anne, que explora las complejidades de sus relaciones. La historia plantea la inquietante cuestión de la supervivencia en medio de un caos inexplicable. A medida que los ataques de las aves se intensifican, los personajes deben enfrentar sus miedos y la fragilidad de la vida. La atmósfera de tensión y el sentido de lo desconocido se entrelazan, creando un relato que va más allá del simple horror, invitando a la reflexión sobre la naturaleza y la condición humana.

El protagonista de Una vida por otra (innominado como el principal personaje de Rebeca, pero cuyo nombre se desvelará al final) es un inglés cuya pasión es recorrer Francia, en particular sus viejos castillos y fortalezas amuralladas, y que secretamente anhela ser un habitante de esos lugares antaño grandiosos y llenos de historia. Pronto se le presenta la oportunidad, lo que cambiará su vida radicalmente y genera así una novela fascinante de Daphne du Maurier.

Uno de los más bellos romances en la historia de la literatura combina novela histórica, costumbrista y thriller gótico. La acción se desarrolla en el siglo XVII, en un país y una familia desgarrados por la guerra civil, centrándose en una de las heroínas más originales. La historia presenta a Honor Harris, una joven que, tras un trágico evento, debe encontrar la fuerza para vivir. En el día de su décimo octavo cumpleaños, irrumpe en su vida sir Richard Grenville, un encantador general de las fuerzas realistas. Su apasionado romance, a pesar de la oposición familiar, debería culminar en matrimonio, pero el destino los separa durante años. Honor descubre un oscuro secreto en la mansión de Menabilly y se convierte en testigo de aterradores sucesos. Años después, sir Richard, ahora general al servicio del rey Carlos I, encuentra a su antiguo amor. Pueden celebrar su sentimiento en las ruinas de la propiedad de su familia, antes de que el destino los separe nuevamente. La historia de Honor Harris y Sir Richard Grenville está basada en personajes reales.

Osnuta gęstą mgłą Kornwalia. Tajemnicza oberża pośrodku drogi donikąd. Młoda kobieta, która próbuje na nowo ułożyć sobie życie, wkracza do świata pełnego niebezpieczeństw. W życiu dwudziestotrzyletniej Mary Yellan zaszły przełomowe zmiany. Niedawno pochowała matkę, z którą była blisko związana, a następnie sprzedała podupadającą farmę. Pozbawiona zobowiązań, postanawia odwiedzić jedyną bliską osobę, ciotkę Patience, którą ostatnio widziała w dzieciństwie. Patience, niegdyś serdeczna i pełna życia, mieszka na kornwalijskim odludziu w oberży Jamajka, którą prowadzi jej mąż, Joss Merlyn. Mary nie wie, że w Jamajce nikt o zdrowych zmysłach nie wynajmuje pokoju na noc, a właściciel oberży to brutal i alkoholik, który pastwi się nad Patience i prowadzi szemrane interesy z tajemniczymi ludźmi. Odwiedziny u ukochanej ciotki wiążą się z niebezpieczeństwami, w obliczu których zgubienie drogi na bagnach wydaje się drobnostką.

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

Book by Du Maurier, Daphne

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.

[ 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.

When people play the Name three or four persons whom you would choose to have with you on a desert island - they never choose the Delaneys. They don't even choose us one by one as individuals. We have earned, not always fairly we consider, the reputation of being difficult guests . . . Maria, Niall, and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents - their father, a flamboyant singer and their mother, a talented dancer. Now pursuing their own creative dreams, all three siblings feel an undeniable bond, but it is Maria and Niall who share the secret of their parents' pasts. Alternately comic and poignant, The Parasites is based on the artistic milieu its author knew best, and draws the reader effortlessly into that magical world.

The title novella of this collection features John and Laura who are on holiday in Venice. But it is a dangerous place for them as they are being followed by two old sisters and there is a killer on the loose.

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.

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

As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio 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 comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. He returns to his birthplace, and once there, finds it is haunted by the phantom of his brother, Aldo, shot down in flames in '43. Over five hundred years before, the sinister Duke Claudio, known as The Falcon, lived his twisted, brutal life, preying on the people of Ruffano. But now it is the twentieth century, and the town seems to have forgotten its violent history. But have things really changed? The parallels between the past and present become ever more evident.

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.

Plyn Boat Yard is a hive of activity, and Janet Coombe, born in turn of the 20th century Cornwall, she longs to share in the excitement of seafaring: to travel, to have adventures, to know freedom. But constrained by the times, instead she marries her cousin Thomas, a boat builder, and settles down to raise a family.Janet's loving spirit - the passionate yearning for adventure and for love - is passed down to her son, and through him to his children's children. As generations of the family struggle against hardship and loss, their intricately plotted history is set against the greater backdrop of war and social change in Britain.

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.

A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb. Julius Lévy has grown 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 France for Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease of swindling, the rewards of love affairs, and the value of secrecy. Cruel and insensitive, Julius claws his way to the top, caring nothing for others--until his daughter, Gabriel, is born. Julius' attachment to her will become his strongest bond--and his greatest weakness.

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.

The author's ancestor Robert Busson du Maurier, who trained in the Busson family glass business, fled to London at the start of the French Revolution. This novel is based on letters written by his sister, Madame Sophie Duval. The story told here by Mme. Duval follows the family, from the time of her mother's marriage "into glass" in 1747 to Robert's death in 1811, so that his great-grandson George will understand his inheritance and budding artistic ability.

A story about a young writer in Paris who is obsessed by his love for a young music student.

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.

Out of the fire-wracked ruins of Manderley, could love and renewal rise phoenix-like from the ashes of the embittered past? First published in 1993, this is the story of Maxim and the second Mrs de Winter. After ten years it seemed as if happiness could be theirs, but the vengeful ghost of Rebecca was still there, casting its long shadow over them.

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

Die Vögel Der kleine Photograph Der Alte Der Kreuzweg Die blauen Gläser Plötzlich an jenem Abend Der Schrecken

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