Daphne du Maurier Summary

Daphne Du Maurier - (1907 - 1989) English novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, and editor. Regarded by many critics as a natural storyteller who made effective use of melodrama, du Maurier is best... Read more

In a writing career that spanned over four decades and brought her international renown, Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) published in a number of different genres. Among her most popular works were thos... Read more

Daphne du Maurier lived in Cornwall for forty years, twenty-five of them in Menabilly, a seventeenth-century house that she described as the most beautiful she had ever seen. Cornwall, a region of mys... Read more

In the following review of Kiss Me Again, Stranger, Barkham lauds du Maurier's craftsmanship as a mystery writer. In her short stories, as in her novels, Daphne du Maurier is a firm believer in... Read more

An English novelist and critic, Bradbury is best known as the author of such satiric novels as Eating People Is Wrong (1959) and Stepping Westward (1965). In the following review of The Breaking Point... Read more

Sullivan is an American novelist and critic. In the following negative review of The Breaking Point, he perceives du Maurier's approach to human interactions as shallow and calculated. The pros... Read more

Kelly is an American critic and educator. In the following excerpt from his book-length biographical and critical study of du Maurier, he concludes that her characters often remain undefined and secon... Read more

Critical Essay by Basil Davenport So Cinderella married the prince, and then her story began. Cinderella was hardly more than a school-girl, and the overworked companion of a snobbish woman of wealth;... Read more

Critical Essay by E. S. Turner Growing Pains is about the delights and irresponsibilities of adolescence, the sowing of mild oats…. Writers of best-selling fiction tend to have peculiar bees in... Read more