· In this collection, as in The Apple Tree, Daphne du Maurier's peerless craftmanship, her eerie sense of the macabre, her gift for sheer story telling come to full fruition. A haunting series of stories, in most cases putting it up to the reader to interpret the final outcome — in all cases using the device of the moment in life when emotion or reason reaches the point of tension beyond which Author: Kirkus Reviews. · Overview. In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination. Her characters are caught at those moments when the delicate link between reason and emotion has been stretched to the breaking www.doorway.ru In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination. Her characters are caught at those moments when the delicate link between /5(78).
Related. Tags: Daphne du Maurier. About nullimmortalis. Writer and Publisher Weirdmonger, Nemonymous etc. "— he smells his last Rovlvula flower, that heady blossom whose golden petals cover the streets in late summer " — Daphne du Maurier. Daphne du Maurier. First published in Great Britain Chapter one Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to They made indifferent sentinels, for in many places their ranks had been broken by the rhubarb plant, and they lay with crumpled. The Birds Daphne du Maurier. Page 1. On December the third, the wind changed overnight The sea, fiercer now with the turning tide, white-capped and steep, broke harshly in the bay. He tried to tell Mrs. Trigg what had happened, but he could see from her eyes that she thought his story was the.
“The Breaking Point” is a collection of nine short stories published in ; the short preface notes that there “comes a moment in the life of every individual when reality must be faced. When this happens, it is as though a link between emotion and reason is stretched to the limit of endurance, and sometimes snaps.”. Overview. In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination. Her characters are caught at those moments when the delicate link between reason and emotion has been stretched to the breaking point. In this collection, as in The Apple Tree, Daphne du Maurier's peerless craftmanship, her eerie sense of the macabre, her gift for sheer story telling come to full fruition. A haunting series of stories, in most cases putting it up to the reader to interpret the final outcome — in all cases using the device of the moment in life when emotion or reason reaches the point of tension beyond which something snaps.
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