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The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier

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The Birds Quotes
2,729 words, approx. 9 pages
The Birds is a 1963 film about a small California town where birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people, in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock . Written by Evan Hunter , based on a short story by...


Author Biography

Name: Daphne du Maurier
Variant Name: Browning, Lady
Birth Date: May 13, 1907
Death Date: April 19, 1989
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: Par, Cornwall, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Daphne du Maurier
6475 words, approx. 21.6 pages
When Daphne du Maurier died at age 81 in 1989 at her home in her beloved Cornwall, England, obituary writers around the world sharpened their pencils. A writer in the London Times called her "one of the most popular novelists in the English-speaking worl...
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Biography of Daphne du Maurier
4055 words, approx. 13.5 pages
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 mystery and superstition, the home of legendary figures s...
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Biography of Daphne du Maurier
1757 words, approx. 5.9 pages
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 those that spun tales of mystery, suspense, and drama, inc...


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The Birds Information
956 words, approx. 3 pages
"The Birds" is a famous novella by Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree, and reprinted in the 1963 collection The Birds and Other Stories. It is about a part-time farmhand, Nat Hocken, and his family, his children...


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To be a bird. (short story)
10/01/1995: 875 words, approx. 3 pages
I'm too skinny for the sea. Dugongs and seals and whales are covered in fat. The sea is cold and I'm no fish. It's cold, a cold as clear as glass. My feet shrink from the water but still I plod along...
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Environmental History
telling stories about extinct birds
10/01/2005: 985 words, approx. 3 pages
telling stories about extinct birds MY INTEREST IN the environment developed early. As a boy, I was drawn to the outdoors-the Chesapeake, the eastern end of Long Island, southwestern Georgia, various parts of New England, and, for the better part of one year,...
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AP News
Rats are eating the birds in Alaska
11/27/2007: 793 words, approx. 3 pages
More than 200 years ago, rats jumped ship for Rat Island.The muscular Norway rat climbed ashore on the rugged, uninhabited island in far southwestern Alaska in 1780 after a rodent-infested Japanese ship ran aground. It was the first time rats had made it to Alaska.Since...
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The New York Observer
As the Bird Turns: Nightingale Ballet Warbles, Wobbles
6/12/2007: 680 words, approx. 2 pages
A pale moon is projected onto the upper-left corner of the backdrop—a moon that turns into a huge eye that blinks and seems to weep. A huddle of dancers in brown suddenly spurt a single red rose. These and other startling effects somewhat animate Christopher...
 


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The Birds
791 words, approx. 3 pages
Analyzes the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Birds. Describes how the birds in the film symbolize different characters. Considers the importance the three main female characters have to Mitch and details how this is shown through paralleling and symbolism.


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