image of Daphne du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier

... Unknown

L'Auberge de la Jamaïque est un roman policier, doublé d'un roman d'aventures, de l'écrivain britannique Daphne du Maurier, publié en 1936. L'action se passe à l'Auberge de la Jamaïque en Cornouailles.

... Unknown

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 …

... Unknown

Le Bouc émissaire est un roman écrit par l'écrivain britannique Daphne du Maurier, paru en 1957. L'auteur l'écrivit alors que ses livres précédents, comme Rebecca, étaient déjà mondialement célèbres. Le roman, qui appartient au genre du suspense, raconte, dans le style gothique le plus pur, un échange d'identité …

... Unknown

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 …

... Unknown

I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten ...but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses Morty Donovan when 'Copper John' Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of Hungry Hill and …

... Unknown

Ma cousine Rachel est un roman de la romancière britannique Daphné du Maurier, paru en 1951.

... Unknown

Rule Britannia is Daphne du Maurier's last novel, published in 1972 by Victor Gollancz.

... Unknown

"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 …