Ïîèñê ïî êàòàëîãó ïå÷àòíûõ èçäàíèé

Àííîòàöèÿ:  ñáîðíèê âîøëè ðàííèå ðàññêàçû Äàôíû Äþìîðüå. Îíè çàõâàòûâàþò ÷èòàòåëÿ è îòðàæàþò ìûñëè, òðåâîæèâøèå àâòîðà íà ïðîòÿæåíèè âñåé æèçíè. Áåç ýòèõ ðàññêàçîâ íå áûëî áû ëåãåíäàðíûõ "Ïòèö", ïðåâðåùåííûõ âåëèêèì Õè÷êîêîì â ïîäëèííûé êèíîøåäåâð. Ãëàâíûì óêðàøåíèåì ñáîðíèêà ÿâëÿåòñÿ çàâîðàæèâàþùàÿ "Êóêëà".

Àííîòàöèÿ: Íà ïîðîãå òðèäöàòèëåòèÿ êðàñàâèöà Äîíà Ñåíò-Êîëàìá îò÷åòëèâî îñîçíàåò ïóñòîòó è íèê÷åìíîñòü âåëèêîñâåòñêîé æèçíè è, ïîä÷èíÿÿñü ïîðûâó, óåçæàåò èç Ëîíäîíà â óåäèíåííûé çàìîê Íàâðîí íà ïîáåðåæüå Êîðíóîëëà. Òàì îíà âñòðå÷àåò íåóëîâèìîãî ïðåäâîäèòåëÿ ïèðàòîâ, êîòîðîãî âñå çîâóò ïðîñòî Ôðàíöóçîì, à âìåñòå ñ íèì - è ñâîþ ëþáîâü, è ñâîå, ïóñòü íåäîëãîå, ñ÷àñòüå.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as guinea pig for a new drug Magnus has discovered in his biochemical research; the effect of which is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century.

Àííîòàöèÿ: On 11th January, 1947 in Los Angeles, a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her "The Black Dahlia". Two cops embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Rebecca, a dark psychological tale of secrets & betrayal, is Daphne du Mauriers best-loved work & was named Best Novel of the 20th Century at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. After a whirlwind romance & a honeymoon in Italy, the innocent young heroine & the dashing Maxim de Winter return to his country estate, Manderley. But the unsettling memory of Rebecca, the first Mrs de Winter, still lingers within. The timid bride must overcome her husbands oppressive silences & the sullen hostility of the sinister housekeeper, Mrs Danvers, to confront the emotional horror of the past.

Àííîòàöèÿ: I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten ...but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses Morty Donovan when 'Copper John' Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of Hungry Hill and extracting the treasure it holds. The Donovans, the original owners of Clonmere Castle, resent the Brodricks' success, and consider the great house and its surrounding land theirs by rights. For generations the feud between the families has simmered, always threatening to break into violence.

Àííîòàöèÿ: A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verità' promises immortality, but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject's life; a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery; and a jealous father finds a remedy when three's a crowd.

Àííîòàöèÿ: A powerful, exuberant romance this is Daphne du Maurier`s first novel which shows her beginnings as a great writer

Àííîòàöèÿ: 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 stories of mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now and Other Stories showcases her unique blend of sympathy and spinetingling suspense.

Àííîòàöèÿ: The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn's dark power. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its crumbling walls -- or that a handsome, mysterious stranger would so incite her passions ... tempting her to love a man whom she dares not trust.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Eight stories which enlarge our understanding of human nature while exploring the half-forgotten world of childhood fantasies and the subtle dreams which condition all our actions.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Rebecca was one of the great bestsellers. It has been read all around the world, and in many laguages. It has been highly successful as a play, a film, a television serial. Now Daphne Du Maurier reveals, very fascinatingly, how it came to be written: its origins, its development, the directions it might have taken, The original outline of the novel is here, and so is the original Epilogue. Daphne Du Maurier also reveals how she first came upon the secret house hidden away in Cornish woodland, that was to become the romantic setting of Rebecca: a house which stood derelict, and which she lovingly restored to make it her own home.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Biography - In this book one of England s most perceptive and popular authors has found a subject exactly suited to her taste for the romantically macabre. Here is Daphne du Maurier s fascinating biography of the tormented poet Branwell Bronte, whose remarkable sisters wrote Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Her mother's dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. With the coachman's warning echoing in her memory, Mary arrives at a dismal place to find Patience a changed woman, cowering from her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn. Affected by the Inn's brooding power, Mary is thwarted in her attention to reform her aunt, and unwillingly drawn into the dark deeds of Joss and his accomplices. And, as she struggles with events beyond her control, Mary is further thrown by her feelings for a man she dare not trust.

Àííîòàöèÿ: The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language - and its own rules. 'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world'. But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution, against which the family struggles to survive.Years later, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. Drawing on her own family's tale of tradition and sorrow, Daphne du Maurier weaves an unforgettable saga of beauty, war, and family.

Àííîòàöèÿ: So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past ther beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten...her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant - the sinister Mrs. Danvers - still loyal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca...for the secrets of Manderley.

Àííîòàöèÿ: Ambrose Ashley, Philips cousin, married Rachel in Italy, and died there. Jealous of his marriage, racked by suspicion at the hints in Ambroses letters, and grief-stricken by his death, Philip prepares to meet his cousins widow with hatred in his heart.