Daphne Du Maurier Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Loving Spirit (1931)
  2. I’ll Never Be Young Again (1932)
  3. The Progress of Julius (1933)
  4. Jamaica Inn (1936)
  5. Rebecca (1938)
  6. Castle Dor (1940)
  7. Come wind, come weather, (1940)
  8. Frenchman’s Creek (1941)
  9. Hungry Hill (1943)
  10. The King’s General (1946)
  11. The Parasites (1949)
  12. My Cousin Rachel (1951)
  13. Mary Anne (1954)
  14. The Scapegoat (1957)
  15. The Glass-Blowers (1963)
  16. The Flight of the Falcon (1965)
  17. The House on the Strand (1969)
  18. Don’t Look Now (1971)
  19. Rule Britannia (1972)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Apple Tree (1952)
  2. The Birds and Other Stories (1952)
  3. Happy Christmas (1953)
  4. Kiss Me Again, Stranger (1953)
  5. Early Stories (1954)
  6. The Breaking Point/The Blue Lenses and Other Stories (1959)
  7. The Treasury of Du Maurier Short Stories (1960)
  8. Echoes From the Macabre (1971)
  9. Don’t Look Now and Other Stories (1973)
  10. The Rendezvous and Other Stories (1980)
  11. Split Second and Other Stories (1981)
  12. Daphne du Maurier’s Classics of the Macabre (1987)
  13. The Doll (2011)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Gerald (1935)
  2. The Du Mauriers (1937)
  3. The Young George Du Maurier (1952)
  4. The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte (1960)
  5. Vanishing Cornwall (1967)
  6. Golden Lads (1975)
  7. Myself When Young (1977)
  8. The Winding Stair (1977)
  9. The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories (1981)
  10. Enchanted Cornwall (1989)
  11. Letters from Menabilly (1993)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Witches’ Brew (1984)
  2. Ghost Movies (1995)
  3. Birds of Prey (2010)

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Daphne Du Maurier Books Overview

The Loving Spirit

A lush generational novel from the bestselling author of Rebecca ‘ du Maurier tells a story because it’s a good story, because it has something of beauty in it, and therefore of truth. She pictures life itself rather than all the dark and torturous currents that twist below its surface…
Miss du Maurier’s book is a grand one.’ Chicago Tribune In her acclaimed debut, celebrated author Daphne du Maurier weaves a stunning tale of heartbreaking loss and undying love that knows no bounds. Janet, a fearless young woman of soaring strength, longs for the wildness and freedom of the sea. She feels herself pulled fast under its spell, yet she sacrifices her dreams in order to create a family. Years later, when she learns of her beloved son’s passion for the sea, Janet’s spirit awakens, haunting her family and stirring a chain of events that changes them forever. Set in a rapturous creation of the Cornish countryside, The Loving Spirit is filled with adventure, courage, and an abiding sense of the romantic.

I’ll Never Be Young Again

In a moment of crisis and grasping the rail of a bridge, Richard is saved by a passing stranger named Jake. The two men, both at turning points, become fast friends and, out for adventure, jump aboard the first ship they see. Their journey takes them across Europe, cementing a passionate friendship. But it is in bohemian Paris that Richard finally meets the woman who enables him to fulfill his artistic promise. Daphne du Maurier’s second novel is a masterpiece of narration, showcasing for the first time in her career the male voice she would use to stunning effect in four subsequent novels, including My Cousin Rachel.

The Progress of Julius

A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier’s third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb. Julius L vy has grown up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick witted urchin caught up in the Franco Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape to Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease of swindling, the rewards of love affairs, and the value of secrecy. Before he’s 20, he s in London, where his empire building begins in earnest. Driven by a lifelong hunger for power, he becomes a rich and ruthless man. His one weakness is his daughter Gabriel.

Jamaica Inn

The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother’s dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn’s dark power. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its crumbling walls or that a handsome, mysterious stranger would so incite her passions…
tempting her to love a man whom she dares not trust.

Rebecca

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& 8212a 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& 8212the 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.

Castle Dor

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 this magical, compelling recreation of the legend of Tristan and Iseult, transplanted in time to the Cornwall of the last century. A chance encounter between the Breton onion seller, Amyot Trestane, and the newly wed Linnet Lewarne launches their tragic story, taking them in the fateful footsteps of the doomed lovers of Cornish legend…

Frenchman’s Creek

‘Highly personalized adventure, ultra romantic mood, and skillful storytelling.’ New York Times DAPHNE DU MAURIER’S LOST CLASSIC; AN ELECTRIFYING TALE OF LOVE AND SCANDAL ON THE HIGH SEAS. Jaded by the numbing politeness of Restoration London, Lady Dona St. Columb revolts against high society. She rides into the countryside, guided only by her restlessness and her longing to escape. But when chance leads her to meet a French pirate, hidden within Cornwall’s shadowy forests, Dona discovers that her passions and thirst for adventure have never been more aroused. 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. Frenchman’s Creek is the breathtaking story of a woman searching for love and adventure who embraces the dangerous life of a fugitive on the seas. 20090327

The King’s General

The highly anticipated reissue of the du Maurier classics American fans have been waiting for ‘Daphne du Maurier has no equal.’ Sunday Telegraph 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 great ball and fall deeply in love. Soon afterward tragedy strikes and they are separated by betrayal and war. Decades later, an undaunted Sir Richard, now a general serving King Charles I, finds her. Finally they can share their passion in the ruins of a great estate on the storm tossed Cornish coast one last time before being torn apart, never to embrace again.

The Parasites

‘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.

My Cousin Rachel

‘From the first page…the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca.’ -The New York Times

From the bestselling author of Rebecca, another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall.

Philip Ashley’s older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned Philip as his own son, has died in Rome. Philip, the heir to Ambrose’s beautiful English estate, is crushed that the man he loved died far from home. He is also suspicious. While in Italy, Ambrose fell in love with Rachel, a beautiful English and Italian woman. But the final, brief letters Ambrose wrote hint that his love had turned to paranoia and fear.

Now Rachel has arrived at Philip’s newly inherited estate. Could this exquisite woman, who seems to genuinely share Philip’s grief at Ambrose’s death, really be as cruel as Philip imagined? Or is she the kind, passionate woman with whom Ambrose fell in love? Philip struggles to answer this question, knowing Ambrose’s estate, and his own future, will be destroyed if his answer is wrong.

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PRAISE FOR DAPHNE DU MAURIER

‘Miss du Maurier is…
a storyteller whose sole aim is to bewitch and beguile. And in My Cousin Rachel she does both, with Rebecca looking fondly over her shoulder.’
New York Times

‘Double-distilled readers’ delight.’
Manchester Guardian

Mary Anne

The highly anticipated reissue of the du Maurier classics American fans have been waiting for ‘Daphne du Maurier has no equal.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘ Likely to rank as the author’s best book.’ Saturday Review ‘This novel catches fire.’ New York Times She set men’s hearts on fire and scandalized a country Master storyteller Daphne du Maurier evokes the rise and fall of one of her most unforgettable characters. An ambitious, stunning, and seductive young woman, Mary Anne finds the single most rewarding way to rise above her miserable cockney world: she will become the mistress to a royal duke. In doing so, she provokes a scandal that rocks Regency England. Mary Anne glitters with sex, scandal, corruption, and the privileged world of high society. Based on the true story of one of du Maurier’s own distant relatives, Mary Anne‘s love of money and the men who spend it embroil her in risks that threaten her very existence.

The Scapegoat

‘Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, ‘Je vous demande pardon,’ and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well.I was looking at myself.’Two men one English, the other French meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are astounded that they are so much alike that they could easily pass for each other. Over the course of a long evening, they talk and drink. It is not until he awakes the next day that John, the Englishman, realizes that he may have spoken too much. His French companion is gone, having stolen his identity. 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. Loaded with suspense and crackling wit, The Scapegoat tells the double story of the attempts by John, the imposter, to escape detection by the family, servants, and several mistresses of his alter ego, and of his constant and frustrating efforts to unravel the mystery of the enigmatic past that dominates the existence of all who live in the chateau. 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.

The Glass-Blowers

‘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 craftsmen in eighteenth century France. The world of the glass blowers has its own traditions, it’s own language and its own rules. ‘If you marry into glass’ Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, ‘you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world’. But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution against which, the family struggles to survive. The Glass Blowers is a remarkable achievement an imaginative and exciting reworking of du Maurier’s own family history.

The Flight of the Falcon

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 of Ruffano. He returns to his birthplace, and once there, finds it is haunted by the phantom of his brother, Aldo, shot down in flames in ’43. Over five hundred years before, the sinister Duke Claudio, known as The Falcon, lived his twisted, brutal life, preying on the people of Ruffano. But now it is the twentieth century, and 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.

The House on the Strand

In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past you will be thrust instantaneously to the present. Magnus Lane, a University of London chemical researcher, asks his friend Richard Young and Young’s family to stay at Kilmarth, an ancient house set in the wilds near the Cornish coast. Here, Richard drinks a potion created by Magnus and finds himself at the same spot where he was moments earlier though it is now the fourteenth century. The effects of the drink wear off after several hours, but it is wildly addictive, and Richard cannot resist traveling back and forth in time. Gradually growing more involved in the lives of the early Cornish manor lords and their ladies, he finds the presence of his wife and stepsons a hindrance to his new found experience. Richard eventually finds emotional refuge with a beautiful woman of the past trapped in a loveless marriage, but when he attempts to intervene on her behalf the results are brutally terrifying for the present. Echoing the great fantastic stories of H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, The House on the Strand is a masterful yarn of history, romance, horror, and suspense that will grip the reader until the last surprising twist.

Don’t Look Now

An NYRB OriginalDaphne 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.

Rule Britannia

Emma, who lives in Cornwall with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, wakes one morning to find that the world has apparently gone mad: no post, no telephone, no radio, a warship in the bay and American soldiers advancing across the field towards the house. The time is a few years in the future. England has withdrawn from the Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy, has decided that salvation lies in a union political, military and economic with the United States. Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership; but to some people it soon begins to look like a takeover bid. Daphne du Maurier is concerned not only with what would happen to this country under what is virtually occupation, but also with the effect on human relationships. In Emma, looking at it all with clear young eyes, Daphne du Maurier has drawn one of her most enchanting hero*ines; and this engrossing book shows once again what a versatile and perceptive writer she is.

The Birds and Other Stories

This is a series of simplified stories, designed as an introduction to literature. The series offers classics, best sellers, film titles and original stories. Each book has extensive exercises, a detailed introduction and information about the syllabus. They are published at six levels: level 1 beginner 300 words; level 2 elementary 500 words; level 3 pre intermediate 1050 words; level 4 intermediate 1650 words; level 5 upper intermediate 2300 words; level 6 advanced 3000 words. The series is designed to be suitable for students of English as a foreign language, for students of English as a second language and for reluctant readers.

Don’t Look Now and Other Stories

An NYRB OriginalDaphne 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.

The Du Mauriers

Spanning nearly a century, this is the enthralling saga of the famously artistic du Maurier family, written by its most celebrated member. When Daphne du Maurier wrote this book, she was only 30 years old, yet she was already established as a biographer and novelist. The Du Mauriers was written during a vintage period of her career, between two of her best loved novels: Jamaica Inn and Rebecca. Her aim was to write her family biography ‘so that it reads like a novel.’ It is due to du Maurier’s remarkable imaginative gifts that she was able to breathe life into the characters and depict with affection and wit relatives she never knew.

The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte

As a bold and gifted child, Branwell Bront’s promise seemed boundless to the three adoring sisters over whom his rule was complete. But as an adult, the precocious flame of genius flickered and burned low. With neither the strength nor the resources to counter rejection, unable to sell his paintings or publish his books, Branwell became a specter in the Bront story, in pathetic contrast with the remarkable achievements of Charlotte, Anne, and Emily. Daphne du Maurier concentrates all her biographer s skill on the shadowy figure of Branwell Bront , and no reader could fail to be intensely moved by Branwell s final retreat into laudanum, alcohol, and death. Dame Daphne du Maurier wrote more than 25 acclaimed novels, short stories, and plays, including Rebecca and The House on the Strand. She was also a passionate and skillful biographer.

Vanishing Cornwall

‘There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought for, not yet known. Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone…
I for this, and this for me.’ Daphne du Maurier lived in her beloved Cornwall for most of her life. Its rugged coastline, wild terrain and tumultuous weather inspired her imagination, and many of her works are set there, including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, and Frenchman’s Creek. In Vanishing Cornwall she celebrates the land she loved, exploring its legends, its history, and its people, eloquently making a powerful plea for Cornwall s preservation.

Golden Lads

Prior to the publication of this biography, the elusive Anthony Bacon was merely glimpsed in the shadow of his famous younger brother, Francis. A fascinating historical figure, Anthony Bacon was a contemporary of the brilliant band of gallants who clustered round the court of Elizabeth I, and he was closely connected with the Queen’s favourite, the Earl of Essex. He also worked as an agent for Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen’s spymaster, living in France where he became acquainted with Henri IV and the famous essayist Michel de Montaigne. It was in France that du Maurier discovered a secret that, if disclosed during Bacon’s lifetime, could have put an end to his political career…
Du Maurier did much to shed light on matters that had long puzzled historians, and, as well as a consummate exercise in research, this biography is also a strange and fascinating tale.

Myself When Young

Both in her novels and her memoirs, Daphne du Maurier revealed an ardent desire to explore her family’s history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries she kept between 1920 and 1932, du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her marriage. Often painfully honest, she recounts her difficult relationship with her father, her education in Paris, her early love affairs, her antipathy towards London life, and her desperate ambition to succeed as a writer. The resulting self portrait is of a complex, utterly captivating young woman.

The Winding Stair

An engaging biography of lawyer, writer, and philosopher Sir Francis Bacon.’All rising to great place is by a winding stair,’ wrote Sir Francis Bacon. It wasn t until he was forty five that Bacon’s feet found the first step on that staircase, when King James I made him Solicitor General, from where he rose through the ranks to become Lord Chancellor. Many accounts of the life of Sir Francis Bacon have been written for scholars, but du Maurier s aim was to paint a vivid portrait of this remarkable man for the common reader. In The Winding Stair, she illuminates the considerable achievements of this Renaissance man: as a writer, lawyer, philosopher, scientist, and politician. Dame Daphne du Maurier 1907 1989 wrote more than 25 acclaimed novels, short stories, and plays, including Rebecca and The House on the Strand. She was also a passionate and skillful biographer. Now, her finest biographical works are being reissued in the distinguished Virago Modern Classics series.

The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories

‘This book of occasional pieces from Daphne du Maurier’s workshop is good to have: it is something of a continuation of her autobiography MYSELF WHEN YOUNG. The title piece is the remarkable Notebook she kept when REBECCA was forming itself in her mind the book that made her a worldwide bestseller and conquered both stage and films and…
television. The other pieces are mainly autobiographical but have no less variety than charm. Her devoted readers will not be disappointed’ SPECTATOR

Enchanted Cornwall

Daphne du Maurier tells how certain places in the English landscape acted upon her imagination so powerfully that they ‘whispered their secrets, and the secrets turned into stories’. Her narrative is interlaced with selections from her novels and stories and her autobiographical writings.

Letters from Menabilly

Daphne du Maurier’s correspondence with Oriel Malet began in the early 1950s, after they met at a cocktail party in London. At least twenty years separated them: Oriel was a gauche young writer while Daphne was the famous, much feted author of bestselling novels including Jamaica Inn, My Cousin Rachel and Rebecca.

The friendship flourished for thirty years, fed by the letters that arrived faithfully from Menabilly, the du Maurier house in Cornwall. While Oriel tasted life on a houseboat on the Seine and mixed with the artistic Who s Who of Paris, Daphne s letters tell of her family, past and present, her marriage to General Sir Frederick Browning a war hero known privately as Moper, whose fits of melancholy caused many a crisis at Menabilly and events like Prince Philip coming for dinner: We ve got only four knives with handles, and one silver candlestick must be glued! Most of all, though, her letters are a valuable record of the complex and rigorous art of a fine and well loved writer: the brewing of a plot, the research, and the pegging of secret fantasies onto a living person in order to create classic characters such as Cousin Rachel and Roger Klymerth.

Ghost Movies

Collected here are short stories and self contained episodes from works which inspired movies including ‘The Old Dark House’, ‘The Ghost Goes West’, ‘Ghost Story’ and ‘Beetlejuice’, featuring authors like Herbert and Du Maurier.

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