Дафна дю Морье

«Ребекка» — роман английской писательницы Дафны Дюморье, опубликованный в 1938 году. Он сразу принёс автору популярность и считается одной из её лучших работ. В книге прослеживается сходство с романом «Джейн Эйр». Большая её часть была написана в Александрии, где Дюморье в то время находилась с …

The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, …

«Моя кузина Рэйчел» — роман английской писательницы Дафны дю Морье, впервые опубликованный в 1951 году. Как и более ранний роман данного автора «Ребекка», это произведение сочетает в себе черты жанров любовного романа и загадки. Основное действие происходит в …

The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier. First published in 1969 by Victor Gollancz, it is one of her later works and had a jacket illustration by her daughter, Flavia Tower. The US edition was published by Doubleday. Like many of du Maurier's novels, The House on the Strand has a supernatural element. …

The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for freedom, honest love - and sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger.To escape the shallowness of court life, Dona retreats to Navron, her …

The Scapegoat is a 1957 novel by Daphne du Maurier. In 1959, it was made into a film of the same name, starring Sir Alec Guinness. It was also the basis of a film broadcast in 2012 written and directed by Charles Sturridge.

Inspired by a grisly discovery in the nineteenth century, The King's General was the first of du Maurier's novels to be written at Menabilly, the model for Manderley in Rebecca.Set in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of a country and a family riven by civil war, and features one of fiction's most original …

"This novel catches fire." --New York Times She set men's hearts on fire and scandalized a country.An ambitious, stunning, and seductive young woman, Mary Anne finds the single most rewarding way to rise above her station: she will become the mistress to a royal duke. In doing so, she provokes a scandal that rocks …