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: 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 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: »I want to know if men realise when they are insane. Sometimes I think that my brain cannot hold together, it is filled with too much horror — too much despair... I cannot sleep, I cannot close my eyes without seeing his damned face. If only it had been a dream». In «The Doll», a waterlogged notebook is washed ashore. Its pages tell a dark story of obsession and jealousy. But the fate of its…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 916 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 377) Аннотация: D ès les premières heures à Manderley, somptueuse demeure de l'ouest de l'Angleterre, le souvenir de celle qu'elle a remplacée s'impose à la jeune femme que vient d'épouser Maxim De Winter. Rebecca, morte noyée, continue d'exercer sur tous une influence à la limite du morbide. La nouvelle Mme De Winter, timide, effacée, inexpérimentée, se…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 346) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The stories in this collection, some written before du Maurier published her first novel, reflect many human emotions: romance, disenchantment, fantasy, nostalgia, ambition, irony, the longing for adventure. Each of them is based on something observed, something overheard, and all will provide pleasure for every mood.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: 'The iron of the bridge felt hot under my hand. The sun had been upon it all day. Gripping hard with my hands I lifted myself on to the bar and gazed down steadily on the water passing under... I thought of places I would never see, and women I should never love. A white sea breaking on a beach, the slow rustle of a shivering tree, the hot scent of grass... I breathed deeply and I felt as though…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Maxim de Winter never talked about Rebecca, but others talked. Rebecca's death had been in all the newspapers. Everyone thought that she had drowned in the sea near Manderley... • Extra grammar and vocabulary exercises. • Points for Understanding comprehension questions. • Glossary of difficult vocabulary. • Free resources including worksheets, tests and author data sheets at…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 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 war, and features one of fiction's most original heroines. Honor Harris is only eighteen when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath, shatter and destroy it'. Faithful to her word, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from her squalid surroundings in Bowling Inn Alley, she ventures first into the scurrilous world of the pamphleteers. Her personal charms are such, however, that before long she comes to the notice of the Duke of York. With her taste for luxury and power, Mary Anne,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: 'It is rather awful, Emma thought as she walked across the fields down to the farm, how this business is leading us all into subterfuge and deception, and we can't really tell who is friend and who is enemy'... Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cosy existence she shares with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A collection of sinister short stories including «The Birds» which was famously adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St. Columb to be ripe for any folly, anything to alter the tedium of her days. But there is another Dona who longs for a life of honest love — even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees London for remote Navron, finding there a hunted pirate.