Daphne Du Maurier

When Richard Young discovers an experimental potion that can transport him back to the fourteenth century, he becomes involved in the lives of those in the past and the present, but his actions soon put his entire future in danger.

The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St. Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for a life of honest love--and sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees the stews of London for remote Navron, looking for peace of mind in its solitary woods and hidden creeks. She finds there the passion her spirit craves--in the love of a daring pirate...

Este libro contiene cinco grandes relatos de Daphne du Maurier: "Los pájaros", "El manzano", "El joven fotógrafo", "Bésame otra vez, forastero" y "El viejo". En todos ellos se nos presentan tramas con obstáculos misteriosos y fatalistas, en las que la realidad se construye en torno a acontecimientos intrusos y fantasmagóricos: el ataque kamikaze y masivo de aves en una tranquila comunidad costera, la obsesión de una culpa transfigurada en las...

In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination. Her characters are caught at those moments when the delicate link between reason and emotion has been stretched to the breaking point. Often chilling, sometimes poignant, these stories display the full range of Daphne du Maurier's considerable talent.

A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely schoolmaster is impelled to investigate a mysterious American couple. A young woman loses her cool when she confronts her father's old friend on a lonely island. A party of British pilgrims meet strange phenomena and possible disaster in the Holy Land. A scientist abandons his scruples while trying to tap the energy of the dying mind.
Collecting five...

Historical novel about a famous British courtesan of the early 1800's.

This incredible new volume is comprised of eight stories that were published in a small UK volume called Early Stories, which is long out of pring, and five stories that were published in periodicals during the early 1930's.