Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: After the death of his beautiful wife Rebecca, Maxim de Winter goes to Monte Carlo to forget the past. There he meets and marries a quiet young woman and takes her back to Manderley, his family home in Cornwall. But will the memory of Rebecca destroy the new marriage?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 059 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 209) Аннотация: The lost stories of Daphne du Maurier, collected in one volume for the first time. Before she wrote «Rebecca», the novel that would cement her reputation as a twentieth-century literary giant, a young Daphne du Maurier penned short fiction in which she explored the images, themes, and concerns that informed her later work. Originally published in periodicals during the early 1930s, many of these…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The 1970s was a decade of anger and discontent. Britain endured power cuts and strikes. America pulled out of Vietnam and saw its President resign from office. Feminism and face lifts vied for women's hearts (and minds). And prog rock, punk and disco weren't just music but for some were ways of life. Daphne du Maurier's «Don't Look Now» was published in 1971 and became a haunting film in 1973. It…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: 'The apathy of Sunday lay upon the streets. Houses were closed, withdrawn. They don't know, he thought, those people inside, how one gesture of mine, now, at this minute, might alter their world. A knock on the door, and someone answers? A woman yawning, an old man in carpet slippers, a child sent by its parents in irritation; and according to what I will, what I decide, their whole future will…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Nat and his family live near the sea. Nat watches the birds over the sea. Suddenly the weather is colder, and there is something strange about the birds. They are angry. They start to attack. They want to get into the house. They want to kill.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: When her mother dies, Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt and uncle at Jamaica Inn. Strange things happen there at night, and Mary slowly discovers that she and her aunt are in terrible danger. Can she save herself and her aunt before it is too late?
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: When her mother dies, Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt and uncle at Jamaica Inn. Strange things happen there at night, and Mary slowly discovers that she and her aunt are in terrible danger. Can she save herself and her aunt before it is too late?
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: An outstanding love story that has been sensitively retold. The heroine, while employed as a personal companion, meets and falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a rich Englishman whose beautiful wife has recently died under tragic circumstances. To her surprise and joy, Maxim proposes to her. But the shadow of Rebecca, Maxim's first wife still dominates him.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Daphne du Maurier's famous novel set in 1830s England. Philip Ashley receives letters from his guardian in Italy, who complains of terrible headaches. He is becoming obsessed by the thought that his young wife is trying to murder him.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Nat and his family live near the sea. Nat watches the birds over the sea. Suddenly the weather is colder, and there is something strange about the birds. They are angry. They start to attack. They want to get into the house. They want to kill.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: After the death of his beautiful wife Rebecca, Maxim de Winter goes to Monte Carlo to forget the past. There he meets and marries a quiet young woman and takes her back to Manderley, his family home in Cornwall. But will the memory of Rebecca destroy the new marriage?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: 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 extracting the treasure it holds. The Donovans, the original owners of Clonmere…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Classic / British English (Available February 2008) After the death of his beautiful wife Rebecca, Maxim de Winter goes to Monte Carlo to forget the past. There he meets and marries a quiet young woman and takes her back to Manderley, his family home in Cornwall. But will the memory of Rebecca destroy the new marriage?
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Life on Mars, a strange dream, and attacks by murderous birds – these are just some of the subjects of these enjoyable short stories. They will amuse and shock you.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The four other haunting, evocative stories in this volume also explore deep fears and longings, secrets…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When her mother dies, Mary Yellan makes the grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her husband, Joss Merlyn. On arriving at the gloomy, threatening inn, with the coachman's warning echoing in her mind, she finds her aunt a cowering shadow, and her uncle a hulking, vicious brute. Even more alarming, Jamaica Inn has no guests and is never open…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 420) Аннотация: A powerful, exuberant romance through three generations, of Cornwall, of passion and drama, of sailing ships and the glory of wind and sea. Janet Coombe was born with the loving spirit and she passed it on to her son Joseph. In Janet's great-granddaughter Jennifer, it again reappeared, to break down the barrier of years. Wild and eerie, it was something that carried them beyond all prudence in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Both a spellbinding love story and a superb evocation of Cornwall's mythic past, Castle Dor is a book with unique and fascinating origins. It began life as the unfinished last novel of Sir Arthur Quiller — Couch, the celebrated 'Q', and was passed by his daughter to Daphne du Maurier whose storytelling skills were perfectly suited to the task of completing the old master's tale. The result is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 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 biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champernoune, he witnesses…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honour of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind…