In Daphne du Maurier's acclaimed debut novel, Janet Coombe longs to know the wildness of the sea and a life of adventure and true freedom. But she is a prisoner of her forbidding times and marries her cousin, a staid shipbuilder. However, she carries within her the loving spirit that she passes on to her beloved seafaring son, his children, and his children's children, as they overcome hardship and heartbreaking loss. Richly plotted and set in a rapturous creation of the Cornish countryside, The Loving Spirit is a stunning novel written on a grand scale, a saga filled with humor and satire, courage, and an abiding sense of the romantic.

The highly anticipated reissue of the du Maurier classics American fans have been waiting for

'Daphne du Maurier has no equal.'
Sunday Telegraph

' Likely to rank as the author's best book.'
Saturday Review

'This novel catches fire.'
New York Times

She set men's hearts on fire and scandalized a country

Master storyteller Daphne du Maurier evokes the rise and fall of one of her most unforgettable characters.

An ambitious, stunning, and seductive young woman, Mary Anne finds the single most rewarding way to rise above her miserable cockney world: she will become the mistress to a royal duke. In doing so, she provokes a scandal that rocks Regency England. Mary Anne glitters with sex, scandal, corruption, and the privileged world of high society.

Based on the true story of one of du Maurier's own distant relatives, Mary Anne's love of money and the men who spend it embroil her in risks that threaten her very existence.

The highly anticipated reissue of the du Maurier classics American fans have been waiting for

'Daphne du Maurier has no equal.'
Sunday Telegraph

As civil war rages across England, the weak prove their courage and the privileged become traitors

In this sweeping, bittersweet saga, spellbinding author Daphne du Maurier recreates a most memorable and true love story. Honor Harris was glorious and vivacious. Sir Richard Grenville was a dashing colonel and a knight. They meet on the evening of her eighteenth birthday at the Duke of Buckingham's great ball and fall deeply in love.

Soon afterward tragedy strikes and they are separated by betrayal and war. Decades later, an undaunted Sir Richard, now a general serving King Charles I, finds her. Finally they can share their passion in the ruins of a great estate on the storm-tossed Cornish coast?one last time before being torn apart, never to embrace again.

'From the first page?the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca.' ?The New York Times

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

Philip Ashley's older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned Philip as his own son, has died in Rome. Philip, the heir to Ambrose's beautiful English estate, is crushed that the man he loved died far from home. He is also suspicious. While in Italy, Ambrose fell in love with Rachel, a beautiful English and Italian woman. But the final, brief letters Ambrose wrote hint that his love had turned to paranoia and fear.

Now Rachel has arrived at Philip's newly inherited estate. Could this exquisite woman, who seems to genuinely share Philip's grief at Ambrose's death, really be as cruel as Philip imagined? Or is she the kind, passionate woman with whom Ambrose fell in love? Philip struggles to answer this question, knowing Ambrose's estate, and his own future, will be destroyed if his answer is wrong.

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PRAISE FOR DAPHNE DU MAURIER

'Miss du Maurier is... a storyteller whose sole aim is to bewitch and beguile. And in My Cousin Rachel she does both, with Rebecca looking fondly over her shoulder.'
New York Times

'Double-distilled readers' delight.'
Manchester Guardian

'Highly personalized adventure, ultra-romantic mood, and skillful storytelling.' ?New York Times

DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S LOST CLASSIC; AN ELECTRIFYING TALE OF LOVE AND SCANDAL ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Jaded by the numbing politeness of Restoration London, Lady Dona St. Columb revolts against high society. She rides into the countryside, guided only by her restlessness and her longing to escape.

But when chance leads her to meet a French pirate, hidden within Cornwall's shadowy forests, Dona discovers that her passions and thirst for adventure have never been more aroused. Together, they embark upon a quest rife with danger and glory, one which bestows upon Dona the ultimate choice: sacrifice her lover to certain death or risk her own life to save him.

Frenchman's Creek is the breathtaking story of a woman searching for love and adventure who embraces the dangerous life of a fugitive on the seas.

An NYRB Original

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 of nightmares. Less known, though no less powerful, are her short stories, in which she gave free rein to her imagination in narratives of unflagging suspense.

Patrick McGrath's revelatory new selection of du Maurier's stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against man's abuse by turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. McGrath draws on the whole of du Maurier's long career and includes surprising discoveries together with famous stories like “The Birds.” Don't Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller.

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 IV and the famous essayist Michel de Montaigne. It was in France that du Maurier discovered a secret that, if disclosed during Bacon's lifetime, could have put an end to his political career . . .

Du Maurier did much to shed light on matters that had long puzzled historians, and, as well as a consummate exercise in research, this biography is also a strange and fascinating tale.

A new edition of a classic Du Maurier novel, which has been unavailable for 20 years. A passionate story, it follows 5 generations of an Irish family and the copper mine to which their fortunes are bound. With an introduction by Nina Auerbach.

Un racconto, un'autobiografia che svela ciò che intimamente ha ispirato le opere di una scrittrice non 'sola', come in molti l'hanno definita, ma 'solitaria', innamorata della Cornovaglia. L'autrice racconta e rilegge la sua vita attraverso i suoi viaggi e i suoi romanzi ispirati tutti dall'amore per questa terra. Magica, misteriosa, inesplorata, la Cornovaglia è vista e 'rivisitata' attraverso gli occhi dell'autrice di Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek e Jamaica Inn. Terminato poco prima della morte della scrittrice, Cornovaglia magica è il racconto del rapporto fra una persona e l'anima di un luogo. Un libro per chi desidera conoscere qualcosa di più su questa autrice così riservata. Per chi ha visto i film tratti dai suoi romanzi. Per chi ha visitato questa arcana, ma dolce regione della Gran Bretagna. Per chi è semplicemente affascinato da una scrittrice solitaria e dallo spirito della Cornovaglia.

Five of du Maurier's best short stories, all haunting, evocative reads, that explore deep fears and longings, secrets and desires.

First publication as a Virago Modern Classic for this comic and poignant novel. Portrays the clash between an impulsive, artistic family and a calculating, aristocratic one.

Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane where he agrees to serve as guinea pig for a new drug Magnus has discovered in his biochemical research, the effect of which is to transport Dick to the 14th century.

In Jamaica Inn, at the heart of the bleak Bodmin Moor, young Mary Yellan soon discovers mysterious goings-on in the dead of night. But worse is yet to come as Mary finds herself helplessly ensnared in the deadly activities taking place around her.

A du Maurier masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and hypnotic suspense, now with a new and stylish jacket.

A warm, human saga of a family of craftsmen in 18th century France, with the violence and terror of the Revolution as a very real background.