Don't Look Now Summary
Daphne Du Maurier

Don't Look Now Summary

When Daphne du Maurier wrote the short story "Don't Look Now," sometimes referred to as a novella for its length, she was firmly established as a popular writer. However, as Nina Auerbach notes in British Writers, though du Maurier was an immediate success when she first started publishing in the 1930s, she was also immediately "dismissed by the cultural establishment as too readable to be literary." Her work was criticized as being mere...

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