El mu?eco
Los cuentos que componen esta antología, representan el talento joven de una mujer que llegaría no solo a ser una de las autoras más leídas del planeta, sino una referencia dentro del género de la intriga gótica, elemento que forma parte de algunas de sus más inquietantes narraciones, como la que presta su título al libro. Narraciones atmosféricas, perturbadoras, elegantes, son un retorno al inmenso talento de Daphne du Maurier para encontrar el lado más oscuro y escalofriante de las situaciones cotidianas, mostrándonos con una prosa impecable que lo más inesperado, sobrecogedor e inolvidable, puede sucederle a cualquiera.
FictionClassics
RELEASED2011
PUBLISHERNevsky Prospects S.L.
LENGTH286
LANGUAGEES
Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, the second of three daughters of Muriel Beaumont, an actress and maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont, and Sir Gerald du Maurier, the prominent actor-manager, son of the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. She was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, she met many of the brightest stars of the theatre, thanks to the celebrity of her father. These connections helped her in establishing her literary career, and she published some of her early stories in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, and she continued writing successfull gothic novels in addition to biographies and other non-fiction books. Alfred Hitchcock was a fan of her novels and short stories, and adapted some of these to films: Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963). Other of her works adapted were Frenchman's Creek (1942), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1951), and "Don't Look Now" (1973). She was named a Dame of the British Empire. In 1932, she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, with whom she had three children, Tessa, Flavia and Christian. Her husband died in 1965, and she passed away on 19 April 1989 in Fowey, Cornwall. After her death, it was revealed that she was bisexual.
El mu?eco
Los cuentos que componen esta antología, representan el talento joven de una mujer que llegaría no solo a ser una de las autoras más leídas del planeta, sino una referencia dentro del género de la intriga gótica, elemento que forma parte de algunas de sus más inquietantes narraciones, como la que presta su título al libro. Narraciones atmosféricas, perturbadoras, elegantes, son un retorno al inmenso talento de Daphne du Maurier para encontrar el lado más oscuro y escalofriante de las situaciones cotidianas, mostrándonos con una prosa impecable que lo más inesperado, sobrecogedor e inolvidable, puede sucederle a cualquiera.
FictionClassics
RELEASED2011
PUBLISHERNevsky Prospects S.L.
LENGTH286
LANGUAGEES
Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, the second of three daughters of Muriel Beaumont, an actress and maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont, and Sir Gerald du Maurier, the prominent actor-manager, son of the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. She was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, she met many of the brightest stars of the theatre, thanks to the celebrity of her father. These connections helped her in establishing her literary career, and she published some of her early stories in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, and she continued writing successfull gothic novels in addition to biographies and other non-fiction books. Alfred Hitchcock was a fan of her novels and short stories, and adapted some of these to films: Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963). Other of her works adapted were Frenchman's Creek (1942), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1951), and "Don't Look Now" (1973). She was named a Dame of the British Empire. In 1932, she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, with whom she had three children, Tessa, Flavia and Christian. Her husband died in 1965, and she passed away on 19 April 1989 in Fowey, Cornwall. After her death, it was revealed that she was bisexual.
