I wanted to read this book because I heard duMaurier's writing style was very similar to Mary Stewart's and I like Stewart's Gothic style. This had the same flavor and it was a decent read but I still enjoy Stewart's stories alot more. I felt like duMaurier's characters didn't do a very good job of ...
I wanted to read this book because I heard duMaurier's writing style was very similar to Mary Stewart's and I like Stewart's Gothic style. This had the same flavor and it was a decent read but I still enjoy Stewart's stories alot more. I felt like duMaurier's characters didn't do a very good job of ...
3.5/5 starsWe open the story with Mary Yellan making a journey in dreary weather to the Jamaica Inn, which just the name of incites fear in the surrounding area. Mary would have never chosen this life for herself but it was her mother's dying wish that Mary move off the farm and in with her Aunt Pat...
Jamaica Inn stills exists. Daphne du Maurier visited the inn and, while exploring the moors, got lost in the fog. From this event, she wrote Jamaica Inn. Mary is orphaned. Before her mother dies, she tells her to go live with her aunt. Mary keeps that promise and finds herself in a nightmare situa...
I finished Jamaica Inn in the early hours of this morning and spent most of today thinking about whether I should give it 3 or 4 stars and whether to add a review – so much has been written about Du Maurier and Jamaica Inn already, and so much of what can be said about JI has been said: There’s a l...
Nobody does Gothic like [a:Daphne du Maurier|2001717|Daphne du Maurier|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1357663068p2/2001717.jpg]. A decrepit inn without guests, wild moors, sinister fogs, smugglers, shipwrecks, a dashing horse thief, an albino vicar, and a murder mystery - all of the ingredients are ...
This book was magical. I loved it so much. Almost as much as Rebecca. I am happy I found this book later in my life, although I think that I would have found the strong heroine, Mary, just as intriguing if I would have read her earlier in my late teens or twenties.
A classic and dark piece of literature set in the dramatic, looming and brooding Bodmin Moor. It really brings to life the atmosphere of an era and area full of mystery and boding. Loved it.
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