The Birds And Other Stories

The Birds And Other Stories
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9781405518277
ISBN-13 : 1405518278
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Book Synopsis The Birds And Other Stories by : Daphne Du Maurier

Download or read book The Birds And Other Stories written by Daphne Du Maurier and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA With an Introduction by 'Britain's most sophisticated film critic' David Thomson, THE TIMES 'A remarkable imagination continually provokes both pity and terror' OBSERVER 'One of the last century's most original literary talents' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . .' A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world.


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