Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989)
Forfatter af Rebecca
Om forfatteren
Daphne Du Maurier was born in London on May 13, 1907 and educated in Paris. In 1932, she married Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning. She began writing short stories of mystery and suspense for magazines in 1928, a collection of which appeared as The Apple Tree in 1952. Her first novel, The vis mere Loving Spirit, was published in 1931. Her tightly woven, highly suspenseful plots and her strong characters make her stories perfect for adaptation to film or television. Among her many novels that were made into successful films are Jamaica Inn (1936), Rebecca (1938), Frenchman's Creek (1941), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1952), and The Scapegoat (1957). Her short story, The Birds (1953), was brought to the screen by director Alfred Hitchcock in a treatment that has become a classic horror-suspense film. She died on April 19, 1989 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Værker af Daphne du Maurier
Modern Classics of Suspense: Rebecca, Death and the Sky Above, The Thin Man, The Circular Staircase, Above Suspicion, A… (1908) 15 eksemplarer
Don't Look Now (Pocket Penguins) 13 eksemplarer
Adventures in Two Worlds / The Bridges at Toko-ri / Kiss Me Again, Stranger / Rivets / The Silent World / Story of… (1953) 9 eksemplarer
My Cousin Rachel / Mary Anne / Frenchman's Creek 8 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest A Treasury of Great Historical Novels Vol 2: The Foxes of Harrow / The King's General / Desiree (1983) 8 eksemplarer
Three Famous Du Maurier Novels: "King's General", "Flight of the Falcon" and "House on the Strand" (1982) 8 eksemplarer
The Great West Country Novels : Frenchman's Creek, The House on the Strand, Jamaica Inn, The King's General,… (1972) 6 eksemplarer
Nieuwe verhalen die Hitchcock koos 6 eksemplarer
OS PÁSSAROS 6 eksemplarer
The Old Man 5 eksemplarer
The Blue Lenses 4 eksemplarer
The Blue Lenses [short story] 4 eksemplarer
The Birds II: Land's End — Writer — 4 eksemplarer
Theatre ‘62: Rebecca [1962 TV episode] — Original book — 4 eksemplarer
Verschil in temperament : en andere verhalen 3 eksemplarer
Ara no miris 3 eksemplarer
No Motive 3 eksemplarer
Rebecca: Upper Level (Heinemann Guided Readers) 2 eksemplarer
Indiscretion 2 eksemplarer
Rebecca, Part 2 2 eksemplarer
Best-in-Books: Dream of Mansions / Castle Dor / Lilies of the Field / Me and the Liberal Arts / Ripley, the Modern… 2 eksemplarer
Kiss Me Again, Stranger [short story] 2 eksemplarer
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 3: Jamaica Inn; The Flight of the Falcon; The King's General; The Glass Blowers; The Breaking… (2012) 2 eksemplarer
Panic 2 eksemplarer
My Cousin Rachel / Rebecca / The Parasites 2 eksemplarer
A Border-Line Case 2 eksemplarer
Monte Bravo Novela 1 eksemplar
The Birds / Don't Look Now 1 eksemplar
Oberża na pustkowiu 1 eksemplar
Gespenster 1 eksemplar
No después de medianoche 1 eksemplar
Non voltarti 1 eksemplar
Obras selectas 1 eksemplar
The Daphne Du Maurier companion including Rebecca, My cousin Rachel, and Frenchman's creek 1 eksemplar
Capolavori del brivido e del mistero 1 eksemplar
Vacanze al mare — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Non dopo mezzanotte — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
The Blue Lenses / Eveline's Visitant — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Zatoka Francuza 1 eksemplar
Wenn die Gondeln Trauer tragen 1 eksemplar
Part I 1 eksemplar
NON DOPO MEZZANOTTE 1 edizione 1 eksemplar
Myself When Young 1 eksemplar
Ptaki i inne opowiadania 1 eksemplar
Verisoara mea Rachel 1 eksemplar
THE APPLE TREE 6 Short Stories. 1 eksemplar
Mary Annes Efterkommere 1 eksemplar
The Supreme Artist 1 eksemplar
Novelas II 1 eksemplar
Spring Picture. 1 eksemplar
Adieu Sagesse [short story] 1 eksemplar
In a London Air-Raid Shelter 1 eksemplar
Mrs. Hill And The Soldiers 1 eksemplar
London, 1940? 1 eksemplar
Spitfire Megan 1 eksemplar
Physician, Heal Thyself 1 eksemplar
A Miner's Tale 1 eksemplar
A Nation's Strength 1 eksemplar
Over The Ration Books 1 eksemplar
George and Jimmy 1 eksemplar
The Admiralty Regrets... 1 eksemplar
Rebecca/The King's General/Don't Look Now 1 eksemplar
La Sainte-Vierge 1 eksemplar
Rebecca, a mulher enesquecivel 1 eksemplar
Serkkuni Raakel 1 eksemplar
Nächstes Jahr um diese Zeit 1 eksemplar
Zlatý hrad 1 eksemplar
Obětní beránek 1 eksemplar
No después de medianoche. No mires ahora. Una cuestión de fronteras. El camino de la cruz. El camino. (1945) 1 eksemplar
NOVELAS I: Rebeca. Adelante Julio. Mi prima Rachel. Nunca volveré a ser joven. Bésame otea vez forastero. La montaña… (1958) 1 eksemplar
The Pool 1 eksemplar
Fairy Tale 1 eksemplar
Leading Lady 1 eksemplar
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2: The House on the Strand; Julius; The Loving Spirit; The Doll: Short Stories 1 eksemplar
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds and Other Stories; Hungry Hill 1 eksemplar
Rebecca, read by Jenny Agutter with Simon Williams in the talking classics series (1994) 1 eksemplar
Not After Midnight [short story] 1 eksemplar
Inte efter midnatt Box 2 1 eksemplar
Monte Verità [novella] 1 eksemplar
NELJTEEN POLVEEN 1 eksemplar
[no title] 1 eksemplar
Rebecca [Longmans' Simplified English] 1 eksemplar
REBECCA, Echos From The macafre 1 eksemplar
The Lover 1 eksemplar
The treasury of Du Maurier short stories 1 eksemplar
Jamaica Inn (abridged) 1 eksemplar
Progress of Julius #, Hungry Hill #, Bears Whelp #, Jamaica Inn #, Loving Spirit #, My Cousin Rachel # 1 eksemplar
The West Country 1 eksemplar
Angels and Archangels 1 eksemplar
The Closing Door 1 eksemplar
Rebecca A play 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Bidragyder — 174 eksemplarer
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories Volume 2: The Twentieth Century (1991) — Bidragyder — 97 eksemplarer
No, But I Saw the Movie: The Best Short Stories Ever Made Into Film (1960) — Bidragyder — 75 eksemplarer
Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2022) — Bidragyder — 39 eksemplarer
Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (2021) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex (1971) — Bidragyder — 24 eksemplarer
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 2: From Salome to Edgar Allan Poe to The Silence of the Lambs (2021) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
A Little Night Reading: Twenty Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (1974) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer
Masters of Shades and Shadows: An Anthology of Great Ghost Stories (1978) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Voices of Man: Let Us Be Men (The Voices of Man Literature Series) (1969) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: My Cousin Rachel • The Silent World • The Night of the Hunter • A Genius in… (1900) 3 eksemplarer
Best-in-Books: The Royal Box / Our National Parks / Jamaica Inn / That Reminds Me / The White and the Gold / Rube… (1955) — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Best-in-Books: Summer of Pride / Angel of Death / Infernal World of Branwell Brontë / Out of the Air (1961) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Great tales of adventure: A selection of condensed novels and full-length short stories (1982) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Meyn Mamvro: Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites of West Penwith - No 10, Autumn/Winter 1989 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Het Beste Boek 44: Het nieuwe jaar / De wortels van het kwaad / Scotts laatste expeditie / De zondebok / Broeders van… (1969) — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Biblioteca de Selecciones 1959: Con la cruz ajena / Las tres caras de Eva / El último rebelde 1 eksemplar
Modern Mystery and Adventure Novels: Portrait of Jennie; Jamaica Inn; The Thirty-Nine Steps; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2015) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Andre navne
- Browning, Dame Daphne du Maurier
- Fødselsdato
- 1907-05-13
- Dødsdag
- 1989-04-19
- Begravelsessted
- Cremated
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- England, UK
- Fødested
- London, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Kilmarth, Cornwall, England, UK
- Dødsårsag
- heart failure
- Bopæl
- Kilmarth, Cornwall, England, UK
- Erhverv
- novelist
playwright
biographer - Relationer
- du Maurier, George (grandfather)
du Maurier, Angela (sister)
Leng, Flavia (daughter)
Browning, Christian (son)
Walmsley, Leo (friend)
Vyvyan, C. C. (friend) - Organisationer
- Mebyon Kernow
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Order of the British Empire (Dame Commander, 1969)
MWA Grand Master - Agent
- Edith Haggard
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Discussions
April 2021: Daphne du Maurier i Monthly Author Reads (maj 2021)
Rebecca - POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT i Daphne du Maurier fans (november 2017)
THE DEEP ONES: "Don’t Look Now" by Daphne du Maurier i The Weird Tradition (juni 2013)
GROUP READ: Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA i 2013 Category Challenge (maj 2013)
This one is for Jim53 i The Green Dragon (april 2013)
Jamaica Inn (Spoilers) i Daphne du Maurier fans (august 2012)
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