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The Yellow Fevered

Chinese Stories from a Laowai Studio

By: Daphne Arfarda

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The Yellow Fevered

Chinese Stories from a Laowai Studio

By: Daphne Arfarda

Eleven short stories about modern China, written by a disillusioned and humorous Westerner observer in February 2020. The stories display a wide range of genres (satyrical vignettes, supernatural tales, essays, journals), appealing to even the most demanding reader; and what's best, they're short. Yellow fever: “Slang term used to mock non-Asian males who have a clear sexual preference for Asian women.” (urbandictionary.com). Why is the author concealing himself with a pseudonym? In adopting a nom de plume I merely intend to safeguard myself from retaliation: not being blacklisted by the Party is one good point when your life is in the irritable and sweaty hands of Chinese government. The guy looks to be in trouble.

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BookRix

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3748729847

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9783748729846

The Rebecca Notebook

and Other Memories

By: Daphne du Maurier

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The Rebecca Notebook

and Other Memories

By: Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca was one of Daphne du Maurier's greatest bestsellers. It has been read all around the world, and in many different languages. The book has been adapted for the theater, film, television, and even opera. Now Daphne du Maurier reveals how it came to be written: its origins, its development, and the directions its plot might have taken. The original outline of the novel is here, as well as the original Epilogue. Daphne du Maurier also reveals how she first came upon Manebilly, the secret house hidden away in Cornish woodland, that was to become the romantic setting of Rebecca: a house which stood derelict, and which she lovingly restored. "In her heartfelt memories...one hears the genuine, thoughtful voice of a woman whose works have been loved by millions."-New York Times

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121

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Little, Brown

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0316253634

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9780316253635

My Cousin Rachel

By: Daphne Du Maurier, Dame,Diana Morgan

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My Cousin Rachel

By: Daphne Du Maurier, Dame,Diana Morgan

THE STORY: The setting is a great house in Cornwall, which has been inherited by young Philip Ashley on the death of his uncle and surrogate father. Although deeply attached to his ancestral home, the uncle had gone to Rome, married a young Itali

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822207974

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9780822207979

The Loving Spirit

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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The Loving Spirit

By: Daphne Du Maurier

Born in turn of the century Cornwall, Janet Coombe longs to share in the excitement of seafaring: to travel, to have adventures, to know freedom. But constrained by the times, she marries her cousin Thomas, a boat builder, and settles down to raise a family. Janet's loving spirit -- her passionate yearning for adventure and love -- is passed down to her son, and through him to his children's children. As generations of the family struggle against hardship and loss, their intricately plotted history is set against the greater backdrop of war and social change in Britain. Her debut novel, The Loving Spirit established du Maurier's reputation and style with an inimitable blend of romance, history and adventure. "Daphne du Maurier has no equal."-Sunday Telegraph

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313

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Hachette+ORM

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0316253553

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9780316253550

Don't Look Now

Selected Stories of Daphne du Maurier

By: Daphne du Maurier

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Don't Look Now

Selected Stories of Daphne du Maurier

By: Daphne du Maurier

Classic horror stories by one of masters of the form. Full of bone-chilling tales, this collection includes "The Birds," the basis for the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same title, and other creepy classics. 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 suspense. Patrick McGrath’s revelatory new selection of du Maurier’s stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against man’s abuse by turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. McGrath draws on the whole of du Maurier’s long career and includes surprising discoveries together with famous stories like “The Birds.” Don’t Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller.

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369

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New York Review of Books

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1590172884

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9781590172889

The Flight Of The Falcon

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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The Flight Of The Falcon

By: Daphne Du Maurier

She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense' GUARDIAN 'Daphne du Maurier is an excellent storyteller' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'One of the last century's most original literary talents' DAILY TELEGRAPH As a tour guide, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if uneventful life - until he becomes circumstantially involved in the death of a peasant in Rome. The woman, he gradually learns, was his family's beloved servant many years ago before, in his native town of Ruffano. Fabbio returns to his birthplace, and finds it is haunted by the phantom of his brother, Aldo, who was shot down in flames during the war. Over five hundred years before, the sinister Duke Claudio, known as The Falcon, lived his twisted, brutal life, preying on the people of Ruffano. The town seems to have forgotten its violent history, but have things really changed? The parallels between the past and present become ever more evident.

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281

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Virago

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1405518146

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9781405518147

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4

Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4

Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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.

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694

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Hachette UK

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1405523824

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9781405523820

The Scapegoat

By: Daphne du Maurier

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The Scapegoat

By: Daphne du Maurier

For his part, John has no choice but to take the Frenchman's place - as master of a chateau, director of a failing business, head of a large and embittered family, and keeper of too many secrets.".

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358

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081221725X

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9780812217254

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1

Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & Other Stories; Hungry Hill

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & Other Stories; Hungry Hill

By: Daphne Du Maurier

Includes the novels Frenchman's Creek and Hungry Hill, and the story collection The Birds & Other Stories. Frenchman's Creek tells the story of Lady Dona St Columb's escape from the Restoration Court in search of love and adventure at Navron in Cornwall. Hungry Hill is a powerful tale of the feud between two great families, the Donovans and the Brodricks. Daphne du Maurier's short story 'The Birds' was the basis for the classic Hitchcock film.

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864

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Hachette UK

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1405523794

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9781405523790

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2

The House on the Strand; Julius; The Loving Spirit; The Doll: Short Stories

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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The House on the Strand; Julius; The Loving Spirit; The Doll: Short Stories

By: Daphne Du Maurier

Includes The House on the Strand, Julius, The Loving Spirit and The Doll: Short Stories. Written in the tradition of Poe and Lovecraft, The House on the Strand is a gripping, time-travelling horror tale. The eponymous hero of Julius is a quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian war, who is soon on his way to seek a fortune in London. The Loving Spirit, Daphne du Maurier's first published novel, is the history of the lives, loves and hardships of a Cornish family at the turn of the twentieth century. This omnibus also includes The Doll, a collection of some of du Maurier's most thrilling short stories.

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Hachette UK

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1405523808

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9781405523806

Daphne Du Maurier

A Daughter's Memoir

By: Flavia Leng

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Daphne Du Maurier

A Daughter's Memoir

By: Flavia Leng

Daphne du Maurier's life in Menabilly is evoked in this memoir by her daughter. The book reveals du Maurier's deep attachment to Cornwall where she spent much of her life as a recluse.

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256

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0754044963

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9780754044963

The Scapegoat

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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The Scapegoat

By: Daphne Du Maurier

Hailed by the "New York Times" as a masterpiece of "artfully compulsive storytelling," "The Scapegoat" brings us Daphne du Maurier at the very top of her form.

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Doubleday of Canada

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0575029218

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9780575029217

Letters from Menabilly

Portrait of a Friendship

By: Dame Daphne Du Maurier,Oriel Malet

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Letters from Menabilly

Portrait of a Friendship

By: Dame Daphne Du Maurier,Oriel Malet

Menabilly was the du Maurier house in Cornwall.Oriel Malet has published the letters she received from Daphne over a 30-year span with links of her own thoughts.

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Orion Media

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1857974417

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9781857974416

The Loving Spirit

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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The Loving Spirit

By: Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier's exuberant Cornish romance featuring passion and drama, 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. In her great-granddaughter Jennifer it appeared again, to break down the barrier of years.

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350

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Random House (UK)

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0099351617

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9780099351610

Mary Anne

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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Mary Anne

By: Daphne Du Maurier

Originally published: London: V. Gollancz, 1954.

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466

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402217110

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9781402217111

The Breaking Point

Stories

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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The Breaking Point

Stories

By: Daphne Du Maurier

In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination. Her characters are caught at those moments when the delicate link between reason and emotion has been stretched to the breaking point. Often chilling, sometimes poignant, these stories display the full range of Daphne du Maurier's considerable talent. "The appeal of romance and the clash of highly-charged emotions."-New York Herald-Tribune

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243

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Hachette+ORM

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0316253596

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9780316253598

The Parasites

By: Daphne du Maurier

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The Parasites

By: Daphne du Maurier

When people play the game: Name three or four persons whom you would choose to have with you on a desert island - they never choose the Delaneys. They don't even choose us one by one as individuals. We have earned, not always fairly we consider, the reputation of being difficult guests . . . Maria, Niall, and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents - their father, a flamboyant singer and their mother, a talented dancer. Now pursuing their own creative dreams, all three siblings feel an undeniable bond, but it is Maria and Niall who share the secret of their parents' pasts. Alternately comic and poignant, The Parasites is based on the artistic milieu its author knew best, and draws the reader effortlessly into that magical world.

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352

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Hachette UK

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0316253502

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9780316253505

Rebecca

By: Daphne Dame Du Maurier

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Rebecca

By: Daphne Dame Du Maurier

Whilst on holiday, a young timid ladies' companion meets handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter whose wife Rebecca has recently died in a boting accident. The two fall in love and marry. However, her joy is short lived when she returns to the de Winter estate and soon discovers that Rebecca still has a strange, unearthly hold over everyone there." [box cover note].

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441

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4444415568

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9784444415569

Rebecca [Movie Tie-in]

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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Rebecca [Movie Tie-in]

By: Daphne Du Maurier

Now a Netflix film starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas "Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again..." With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten--a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim's first wife--the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca. This special edition of Rebecca includes excerpts from Daphne du Maurier's The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories, an essay on the real Manderley, du Maurier's original epilogue to the book, and more. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

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416

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William Morrow

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0063082993

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9780063082991

Frenchman's Creek

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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Frenchman's Creek

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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 husband's remote Cornish estate. There, she seeks peace in its solitary woods and hidden creeks. But she finds instead a daring pirate, hunted by all Cornwall, a Frenchman who, like Dona, would gamble his life for a moment's joy. Together, they embark upon a quest rife with danger and glory, one which bestows upon Dona the ultimate choice: sacrifice her lover to certain death or risk her own life to save him.

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253

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Virago Press

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1844080412

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9781844080410

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 3

Jamaica Inn; The Flight of the Falcon; The King's General; The Glass Blowers; The Breaking Point & Other Stories; Mary Anne

By: Daphne Du Maurier

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Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 3

Jamaica Inn; The Flight of the Falcon; The King's General; The Glass Blowers; The Breaking Point & Other Stories; Mary Anne

By: Daphne Du Maurier

Includes Jamaica Inn, The Flight of the Falcon, The King's General, The Glass Blowers, Mary Anne, and The Breaking Point & Other Stories. Jamaica Inn weaves a tale of mystery at the eponymous inn on Cornwall's bleak moorlands. The Flight of the Falcon is set in the Italian town of Ruffano: in the 20th century the town has nearly forgotten its violent history, but is it still stained by its dark past? Set in the 17th century at Menabilly in Cornwall, The King's General is the story of a country and a family riven by war. The French Revolution is the backdrop to The Glass Blowers, a tale of family tragedy. Mary Anne is a vivid portrait of one woman's ambition as she rises from ordinary beginnings to become an influential royal mistress to the Duke of York.

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Hachette UK

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1405523816

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9781405523813

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