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41) Castle Dor
Author
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding love story, Castle Dor was the unfinished last novel of the British novelist Sir Arthur Quiller-Crouch, better known as "Q." The novel was passed on to Daphne du Maurier by his daughter, who was sure that du Maurier's storytelling skills were perfectly suited to completing the tale. The result is a magical, compelling retelling of Tristan and Iseult, the star-crossed lovers transplanted in time to the Cornwall of the last century. A...
43) The birds
Language
English
Formats
Description
The residents of Bodega Bay are inexplicably attacked by hundreds of birds of all shapes and sizes.
44) My cousin Rachel
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The movie is based on the 1951 novel by Daphne Du Maurier and tells the story of a young Englishman who plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Seeking to escape the stifling London court society, the beautiful headstrong Lady Dona St. Columb flees to her family estate on the Cornish coast. Her new freedom swiftly brings her into contact with the dashingly handsome French privateer Jean Aubrey who sweeps her off her feet and into a world of adventure on the high seas very different from her dull and boring life at court with her husband Sir Harry.
46) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
47) The birds
Series
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
A small California town is attacked by thousands of birds.
48) Don't look now
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Psychic terror in a Gothic setting provides the chilling backdrop in this tale of a couple's search for the ghost of their dead daughter.
49) The scapegoat
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When John Barratt meets Count Jacques De Gué while vacationing in the South of France, the lonely university professor can't believe his eyes, the Count is his exact double! But when Barratt awakens after a night of heavy drinking, he finds De Gué has vanished, leaving the professor in his place. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier.
50) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A shy young bride is neglected by her morose husband who seems to be still obsessed with his deceased first wife.
51) The birds
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Melanie Daniels is a beautiful blonde who arrives in Bodega Bay in pursuit of the handsome and eligible Mitch Brenner. But love is not the only thing in the air when thousands of birds descend upon the town, attacking and terrorizing its residents. Soon Melanie and Mitch are fighting for their lives against a deadly, unexplainable force in this spine-tingling portrait of nature at its most powerful and ruthless.
52) Rebecca
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
53) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
55) Rebecca
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life dominated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Jamaican Inn: An Irish orphan girl goes to live with an uncle who is discovered to be involved in a group of smuggling highwaymen ravaging the area.
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage.
The 39 steps: Character Richard Hanney stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Easy virtue: A woman goes through a divorce and attempts...
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
SUMMARY : [Jamaica Inn] A Cornish girl gets involved with smugglers -- [Sabotage] A manager of a small cinema, unknown to his family, is a saboteur -- [39 steps] While watching a play tourist Richard Hannay hears a disturbance in the hall and sees a woman running away from a spy ring. He agrees to protect her but later that night she is murdered, and afraid he will be accused of the murder, Hannay goes on the run to bring down the ring and prove his...
Pub. Date
[c2011]
Language
English
Description
In Rear window, A photographer confined to his room with a broken leg suspects a murder has been committed in a nearby apartment.
Vertigo is an elaborately constructed murder story and a fascinating study in sexual obsession. A detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a complex plot in which a girl he loves apparently falls to her death. He then meets her double and tries to re-create the image of the woman he has loved but lost in death.
In...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Plot for Jamaica Inn: England in the early 1800s, when the arm of the law is neither long nor strong. Especially on the remote coast of Cornwall where storm-driven ships are lured to their death ... ; plot for The Demon: Random people are terrorized by a malevolent man who brings their worst fears to life; plot for Murder in the Red Barn: A melodrama of the famous story about a young girl brought to disgrace by a local squire Corder and her murder...
