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Genre/Form: | Gothic fiction Fiction Fiktionale Darstellung Romantic suspense novels |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Daphne Du Maurier; Roger Mitchell |
ISBN: | 9780349009858 0349009856 |
OCLC Number: | 973899636 |
Notes: | Originally published: Victor Gollanz, 1951. |
Description: | viii, 335 pages ; 20 cm. |
Responsibility: | Daphne du Maurier ; with an introduction by Roger Mitchell. |
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She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense, and she was, too, a writer of fearless originality * Guardian * No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . She satisfied all the questionable criteria of popular fiction, and yet satisfied the exacting requirements of "real literature", something very few novelists ever do -- Margaret Forster From the first page . . . the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca * New York Times Book Review * 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 * She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense, and she was, too, a writer of fearless originality * Guardian * No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . She satisfied all the questionable criteria of popular fiction, and yet satisfied the exacting requirements of "real literature", something very few novelists ever do -- Margaret Forster From the first page . . . the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca * New York Times Book Review * Read more...
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