Daphne Du Maurier

Short stories of suspense, adventure and the supernatural.

"In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past you will be thrust instantaneously to the present. Magnus Lane, a University of London chemical researcher, asks his friend Richard Young and Young's family to stay at Kilmarth, an ancient house...

"If you've never read 'Rebecca,' Beauman's book is still a cracking good read." - Detroit Free Press

"Two men--one English, the other French--meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are astounded that they are so much alike that they could easily pass for each other. Over the course of a long evening, they talk and drink. It is not until he awakes the next day that John, the Englishman, realizes that he may have spoken too much. His French companion is gone, having stolen his identity. For his part, John has no choice but to take the Frenchman's...

The Brodricks and the Donovans were doomed to feud. From 1820 to 1920, the two families fought to build a livelihood and a fortune, from the Irish land they were born to. It all began when the Donovans accused the Brodricks of stealing their land. When John Brodrick opened the copper mine at Hungry Hill, the head of the Donovan clan cursed it and predicted it would be the downfall of his archrivals.

An ambitious, stunning, and seductive young woman, Mary Anne finds the single most rewarding way to rise above her miserable cockney world: she will become the mistress to a royal duke. In doing so, she provokes a scandal that rocks Regency England. Mary Anne glitters with sex, scandal, corruption, and the privileged world of high society. Based on the true story of one of du Maurier's own distant relatives, Mary Anne's love of money and the men who...

The story of the Bussons, a family of glass-blowers living in France before and during the Revolution.

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.

"This story covers 10 days in the life of a tourist courier in modern Italy who leaves his job to return to his native city of Ruffano to learn why his old nurse, Marta, should be the beggar found murdered on the church steps. He finds his brother, Aldo, believed killed in a plane crash during the war. ... The life of fated Aldo and his connection with Marta emerge against the background of the annual student festival and its story of the unhappy...