Myself When Young
The Shaping of a Writer
$37.26
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
25 May 2004
Summary
Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier’s overwhelming desire to explore her family’s history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her subsequent marriage. Here, the writer is open and sometimes painfully honest about the difficult relationship with her father; her education in Paris; early love affair…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844080960 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184408096X |
| Author: | Helen Taylor, Daphne du Maurier |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 25 May 2004 |
| Weight: | 157g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 131mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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The girl we meet, a strong-winged bird homing in to the steep banks of a Cornish river, is herself no mean romantic enigma
The girl we meet, a strong-winged bird homing in to the steep banks of a Cornish river, is herself no mean romantic enigma - SUNDAY TIMES
A delightful book, full of amusing and charming stories, pinpointing the literary influences and the first stirrings of books to be written in later years, and with a happy and romantic ending - THE TIMESThe girl we meet, a strong-winged bird homing in to the steep banks of a Cornish river, is herself no mean romantic enigma - SUNDAY TIMESA delightful book, full of amusing and charming stories, pinpointing the literary influences and the first stirrings of books to be written in later years, and with a happy and romantic ending - THE TIMESAbout The Author
Helen Taylor
Daphne du Maurier was born in 1906 and educated at home and in Paris. She began writing in 1928, and many of her bestselling novels were set in Cornwall, where she lived for most of her life. She was made a DBE in 1969 and died in 1989.
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