Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1405523824

Includes Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's best-known and bestselling novel, is the classic tale of a young woman who marries handsome widower Maxim de Winter and moves to his great house at Manderley in Cornwall, only to find that all is not as it first seems . . . In My Cousin Rachel, Philip Ashley, an orphan raised by his benevolent cousin Ambrose, is drawn into the orbit of Ambrose's beautiful, mysterious new wife Rachel.

The Facing Island

The Facing Island
Author: Jan Bassett
Publisher: Melbourne University Publish
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780522850291

The discovery of a wonderful primary source—the five-year correspondence from Wilson Tong of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to Edith Harris at Phillip Island—inspired the author to create this rich and unusual memoir, written as she came to terms with a diagnosis of cancer. As the author replies to the long-dead soldier's letters, links and parallels emerge between the young man living with the fear of death and the woman, 80 years later, facing her own death in middle age. She reflects on her life—particularly her childhood on Phillip Island—her work, and her own confrontation with mortality.

Neverland

Neverland
Author: Piers Dudgeon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2009-10-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"Neverland" offers a fascinating account of the psychological web in which [J.M.] Barrie trapped the tragic du Maurier family (David Lodge), who became the inspiration for the Darling family in Barrie's immortal "Peter Pan."

The Modern Review

The Modern Review
Author: Ramananda Chatterjee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 688
Release: 1951
Genre: India
ISBN:

Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".

The House on the Strand

The House on the Strand
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316252999

The classic time travel novel from the legendary writer behind Rebecca and "The Birds." "The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier." --New York Times Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wear off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda...

The Eye of Love

The Eye of Love
Author: Margery Sharp
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504034260

Margery Sharp’s enchanting New York Times–bestselling novel about the profound ways that love can change our view of other people and the world around us Miss Dolores Diver and Harry Gibson have been passionately in love ever since they met at the Chelsea Arts Ball: He came as a brown paper parcel, she as a Spanish dancer. Only the eye of love could have transformed plain Dolores into a Spanish rose and stout Harry into the man of Dolores’s dreams. But ten years later, during the Great Depression, Harry must marry his colleague’s daughter in order to save his nearly bankrupt business. The course of true love never runs smoothly but with some inadvertent help from Dolores’s keenly observant nine-year-old niece, Martha, Harry’s grasping fiancée, and Dolores’s calculating lodger, Harry might succeed in both averting financial ruin and reclaiming his beloved.