My Cousin Rachel
«No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . She satisfied all the questionable criteria of popular fiction, and yet satisfied the exacting requirements of "real literature", something very few novelists ever do»
I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn ...Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Virago Press Ltd
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 352
- ISBN
- 9781844087631
- Utgivelsesår
- 2011
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . She satisfied all the questionable criteria of popular fiction, and yet satisfied the exacting requirements of "real literature", something very few novelists ever do»
«In the same category as REBECCA, but an even more consummate piece of storytelling»
GUARDIAN 'From the first page . . . the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca
«NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW»
«She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense, and she was, too, a writer of fearless originality»
Guardian
«Du Maurier has no equal»
Sunday Telegraph
«This comes closer to Rebecca than anything Miss du Maurier has done and is, I think, one of her best novels, ingeniously contrived as to plot, successfully realized as to characters»
Kirkus Reviews
«From the first page . . . the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca»
New York Times Book Review