The Du Mauriers
$38.76
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
13 July 2004
Summary
When Daphne du Maurier wrote this book she was only thirty years old and had already established herself both as a biographer, with the acclaimed Gerald: A Portrait, and as a 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’ and it was due to du Maurier’s remarkable imaginative gifts that she was…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844080649 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1844080641 |
| Author: | Michael Holroyd, Daphne du Maurier |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 13 July 2004 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Spanning nearly a century, this is the enthralling saga of the famously artistic du Maurier family, written by its most celebrated member.
Miss du Maurier creates on the grand scale; she runs through the generations, giving her family unity and reality … a rich vein of humour and satire … observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic, are here - Observer
Miss du Maurier creates on the grand scale; she runs through the generations, giving her family unity and reality … a rich vein of humour and satire … observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic, are here - ObserverAbout The Author
Michael Holroyd
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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