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.

A collection of short stories showing du Maurier as an exponent of the sinister and the macabre. The title story was the original inspiration for Hitchcock's classic film.

Fascinating reconstruction of the life of Daphne du Maurier's great-great grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke, during the Napoleonic Wars. Includes and introduction by Lisa Hilton.

A gripping and complex exploration of doubling and identity, and of the dark side of the self. Includes an introduction by Lisa Appignanesi. 'This book is one of her best' }Time & Tide{

New edition of this classic du Maurier love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War.

Strong, exuberant romance that was her first novel, originally published in 1931.

New editions to the }Virago Modern Classics{ series.

'Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon,' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well.

I was looking at myself.'

Two men—one English, the other French—meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are astounded that they are so much alike that they could easily pass for each other. Over the course of a long evening, they talk and drink. It is not until he awakes the next day that John, the Englishman, realizes that he may have spoken too much. His French companion is gone, having stolen his identity. For his part, John has no choice but to take the Frenchman's place—as master of a chateau, director of a failing business, head of a large and embittered family, and keeper of too many secrets.

Loaded with suspense and crackling wit, The Scapegoat tells the double story of the attempts by John, the imposter, to escape detection by the family, servants, and several mistresses of his alter ego, and of his constant and frustrating efforts to unravel the mystery of the enigmatic past that dominates the existence of all who live in the chateau.

Hailed by the New York Times as a masterpiece of 'artfully compulsive storytelling,' The Scapegoat brings us Daphne du Maurier at the very top of her form.

In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past you will be thrust instantaneously to the present.

Magnus Lane, a University of London chemical researcher, asks his friend Richard Young and Young's family to stay at Kilmarth, an ancient house set in the wilds near the Cornish coast. Here, Richard drinks a potion created by Magnus and finds himself at the same spot where he was moments earlier—though it is now the fourteenth century. The effects of the drink wear off after several hours, but it is wildly addictive, and Richard cannot resist traveling back and forth in time. Gradually growing more involved in the lives of the early Cornish manor lords and their ladies, he finds the presence of his wife and stepsons a hindrance to his new-found experience. Richard eventually finds emotional refuge with a beautiful woman of the past trapped in a loveless marriage, but when he attempts to intervene on her behalf the results are brutally terrifying for the present.

Echoing the great fantastic stories of H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, The House on the Strand is a masterful yarn of history, romance, horror, and suspense that will grip the reader until the last surprising twist.

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim's first wife—the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.

This special edition of Rebecca includes excerpts from Daphne du Maurier's The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories, an essay on the real Manderley, du Maurier's original epilogue to the book, and more.

In questo racconto, da cui Nicholas Roeg trasse il film 'A Venezia, un dicembre rosso shocking' con Donald Sutherland e Julie Christie, i luoghi e le figure tipiche del turismo di massa veneziano diventano gli scenari e gli attori di una vicenda da incubo...

'Qui Londra. Lo stato di emergenza è stato proclamato alle quattro del pomeriggio in tutto il paese... E' assolutamente indispensabile che tutti rimangano in casa, stanotte, e che nessuno esca in strada o rimanga in luoghi aperti. Gli uccelli, a gruppi molto numerosi, attaccano chiunque sia in vista e hanno già iniziato l'assalto agli edifici...' La storia dell'invasione dell'Inghilterra da parte di orde di uccelli d'ogni sorta (da cui un celebre film di Alfred Hitchcock) fu scritta da Daphne Du Maurier, che, rispetto al film, punta più su un'inquietudine sottile che sulla pura e semplice paura, narra un'angoscia più psicologica che fisica...

Ambientato negli anni della Rivoluzione francese, e in particolare del Terrore, il romanzo segue attraverso il racconto dell'anziana Sophie Duval, nata Busson, le alterne e sorprendenti vicende di una famiglia di artigiani maestri vetrai, che sono poi gli avi francesi di Daphne Du Maurier.

'Era aprile, durante le vacanze di Pasqua: ero stato in Grecia altre due volte, ma mai a Creta. Insegnavo materie umanistiche in una scuola privata, ma non volevo visitare Creta per vedere le aree archeologiche di Cnosso e Festo, ma per assecondare una mia passione personale: ho un certo talento per la pittura ad olio...' Nei due racconti che compongono il volume, anche i luoghi deputati allo svago e al riposo ospitano,'per chi le sa vedere, le maligne forze segrete che ci assediano'.

'Last Night I Dreamt
I Went To Manderley Again.'

So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past ther beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten...her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant -- the sinister Mrs. Danvers -- still loyal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca...for the secrets of Manderley.

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, she could sense the inn's dark power. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its crumbling walls -- or that a handsome, mysterious stranger would so incite her passions ... tempting her to love a man whom she dares not trust.

Queste pagine di Daphne Du Maurier (1907-1989) raccontano come quella regione abbia fatto di lei una scrittrice. Magica, misteriosa, inesplorata la Cornovaglia è vista e 'rivisitata' attraverso gli occhi dell'autrice di Rebecca e Jamaica Inn, romanzi che ormai appartengono al folklore cornico, oltre che alla letteratura e al cinema (con le versioni cinematografiche di Hitchcock). Terminato poco prima della morte della scrittrice, Cornovaglia magica è il racconto del rapporto fra una persona e l'anima di un luogo.

At the great Cornwall estate of Manderley, Maxim de Winter and his frightened new wife try to live with the haunting legacy of Maxim's first wife, the beautiful and cold Rebecca, who died in a sailing accident. Reissue. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.

History, travel, and legend combine in this elegant elegy to beautiful, mysterious Cornwall by its most famous resident

There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known. Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone . . . I for this, and this for me.

Daphne du Maurier lived in her beloved Cornwall for most of her life. Its rugged coastline, wild terrain, and tumultuous weather inspired her imagination, and many of her works are set there, including Frenchman's Creek, Jamaica Inn, and Rebecca. Here she celebrates the land she loved, exploring its legends, its history, and its people, and eloquently makes a powerful plea for Cornwall's preservation.