Buy this book on-line FORSTER, MARGARET: : Daphne du MaurierLONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1993. ISBN 0701161671.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.Owner's 'Beatrix Potter' bookplate to half-title page. Slight shelf-wear to head+tail spine/ backstrip,corners very slightly bumped.Top+fore-edges very lightly aged but clean; contents bright,tight and clean.Publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate sepia photographic endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xiii-xvipp+3-455pp [paginated], sepia photographic endpapers,blank,half-title+ title pages,a dedication,a contents list,a family tree,illustrations list (32 excluding eps),acknowledgements,Pts 1-5 plus an afterword, an appendix,works of du Maurier,notes+ references,an index and 32 b/w contemporary photographs,on 16pp in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp140/1 and pp268/9 respectively.
Daphne du Maurier made an immediate impact in 1938 with her most famous novel,'REBECCA',which captured the popular imagination in a way that few other 20thC novels have done.It established her as a powerful storyteller whose ability to create an atmosphere of suspense and mystery made her a worldwide bestseller.Other novels - 'Frenchman's Creek','My Cousin Rachel' and short stories such as 'The Birds' and 'Don't Look Now',went on to fascinate her readers and to provide the raw material for outstanding films.
But the more fame her books brought,the more reclusive she became.No one was aware that her passionate and often violent stories mirrored her own fantasy life and that sometimes the dividing line between fantasy and reality was dangerously slim.
She maintained a relaxed and charming facade, while underneath there was great emotional turbulence.Margaret Forster goes behind this facade to discover the contradictions of du Maurier's complex character.She explores,with the co-operation of the family and drawing on hitherto unpublished private letters and papers, the secret drama of her life - the stifling relationship with her father,actor-manager Gerald du Maurier; her troubled marriage to 'Boy' Browning,war hero and royal aide; her secret wartime love affair; and her highly significant friendship with the last of her father's 'actress loves',Gertrude Lawrence.
Meticulously researched,Forster's biography is a masterpiece of storytelling for which its subject was justly renowned.
Above all,it lays bare the workings of an
extraordinary,and remarkably honest mind.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/backstrip,other edges and corners unaffected.Top+fore-edges very lightly aged,but clean; contents bright,tight and clean.
Publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate sepia photographic endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xiii-xvi+3- 455pp [paginated],sepia photographic endpapers,a blank,half-title+title pages,a dedication,a contents list,a family tree,an illustrations list (32 excluding endpapers),acknowledgements, Pts1-5 plus afterword,an appendix,works of du Maurier,notes+references,an index and 32 b/w contemporary photographs in 16pp,in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp140/1 and pp268/9 respectively.
Daphne du Maurier made an immediate impact in 1938 with her most famous novel,'REBECCA',which captured the popular imagination in a way that few other 20thC novels have done.It established her as a powerful storyteller whose ability to create an atmosphere of suspense and mystery made her a worldwide bestseller.
Other novels - Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel and short stories such as 'The Birds' and 'Don't Look Now', went on to fascinate her readers and to provide the raw material for outstanding films.But the more fame her books brought,the more reclusive she became.No one was
aware that her passionate and often violent stories mirrored her own fantasy life and that sometimes the dividing line between fantasy and reality was dangerously slim.She maintained a relaxed and charming facade,while underneath there was great emotional turbulence.
Margaret Forster goes behind this facade to discover the contradictions of du Maurier's complex character.She explores,with the co-operation of the family and drawing on hitherto unpublished private letters and papers,the secret drama of her life - the stifling relationship with her father, actor-manager Gerald du Maurier; her troubled marriage to
'Boy' Browning, war hero and royal aide; her secret wartime love affair; and her highly significant friendship with the last of her father's 'actress loves',Gertrude Lawrence. Meticulously researched,Forster's biography is a masterpiece of storytelling for which its subject was justly renowned.Above all,it lays bare the workings of an extraordinary, and remarkably honest mind.
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