Frenchman's Creek (MP3 Book)
Daphne du Maurier's Frenchman's Creek is the scandalous tale of one woman's will to seize adventure by the horns and become the fugitive of her own fate.Daphne du Maurier was born in London in 1907, the second daughter of a famous stage actor and actress. Her first novel was published in 1931,...
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Daphne du Maurier's Frenchman's Creek is the scandalous tale of one woman's will to seize adventure by the horns and become the fugitive of her own fate.Daphne du Maurier was born in London in 1907, the second daughter of a famous stage actor and actress. Her first novel was published in 1931, but it was her 1938 novel Rebecca which made her one of the most successful writers of her time. Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of the book won the Best Picture Oscar in 1940, and he used her material again for his classic The Birds. In 1969, Du Maurier was created a Dame of the British Empire.At the age of 81, Du Maurier died at home in her beloved Cornwall, the region that had been the setting for many of her books.
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Format: MP3 CD
ISBN:
9781408415979 (1408415976)
Publish date: December 22nd 2008
Publisher: AudioGO
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Mystery,
Historical Romance,
Pirates,
Suspense,
Gothic
Frenchman’s Creek, Daphne du MaurierThis is not the typical novel that is written today. Looking at the style of the original cover, I would have turned away from it, and more’s the pity because I would have missed a book that demands an audience and perhaps a conversation about what we seek and how...
I received a copy of this book from the publishers and this is my honest opinion of the book. Dona, Lady St Columb, being bored with life at court, has escaped London, travelling to her Cornish estate, Navron. Here she enjoys lazy days and solitary evenings. Until she discovers her house has been ...
Daphne du Maurier was certainly an author who liked to challenge conventions. She did so in her most famous novel, Rebecca, and she does so again here.Frenchman's Creek tells the tale of the Lady Dona St Columb, a spoiled darling of London who decided to leave her husband simply because he is a fool...
Lady Dona St. Columb, an 18th-century aristocrat married to a baronet, flees from an over-indulgent life in London, away from tedium of King Charles II's court, to the family's house in Cornwall. Lady Dona is self-willed and obstinate, frustrated and unhappy with her life. Suffocated by her boring...
cross-posted at goodreads and the mo-centric universe. a few months of staring blankly into space means that finishing this book was a major accomplishment for me. normally, it would have been a quick read but for this cursed lack of focus.. anyway, it is a simple little romance, and i do like eni...
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