Knihy od: D. Du Maurier

Classic / British English 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...

´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 Houses were closed, withdrawn.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...

In diesem großen Generationenroman erweckt Daphne Du Maurier einen Teil der französischen Geschichte zum Leben, den man selten so eindrücklich und privat geschildert bekam: das Schicksal einer angesehenen Bürgerfamilie in den Wirrnissen der Revolution. Dass es sich in großen Teilen um ihre eigene Familiengeschichte handelt, macht die Lektüre um so...

As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life -- until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family´s beloved servant many years ago, in his native town...

´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...

Dunkle Geheimnisse umgeben das verrufene Jamaica Inn, das einsam im öden Moorland von Cornwall liegt. In dieses Haus, nahe der zerklüfteten, sturm-gepeitschten Küste, verschlägt es die junge Mary. Schon bald nach ihrer Ankunft wünscht sie sich, niemals einen Fuß über die Schwelle des Gasthauses gesetzt zu haben ...Ein hinreißend erzählter...

Philip Ashleys alternder Vetter Ambrose fährt nach Florenz, um in der Heirat mit Cousine Rachel spätes Glück zu suchen. Doch bald darauf befällt ihn ein unerklärliches Leiden; der Sterbenskranke schickt einen Hilferuf an Ashley, der sofort nach Italien aufbricht. Doch als er ankommt, ist Ambrose tot ... Eine meisterhaft erzählte...

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...

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...

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again ...Working as a lady´s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sud