"lucky one, returning like a wayward son to Manderley, I'd never be the same..."". Steve Hackett included a song entitled ""Rebecca,"" inspired by the novel, on his album ""To Watch the Storms"". In 2013, Devon watchmakers Du Maurier Watches, founded by the grandson of Daphne du Maurier, released a limited edition collection of two watches inspired by the characters from the novel – The Rebecca and The Maxim. Rebecca (novel) Rebecca is a Gothic novel by English author Dame Daphne du Maurier. A best-seller, ""Rebecca"" sold 2,829,313 copies between its publication in 1938 and 1965, and the book has never"
"Mrs. Danvers Mrs. Danvers (whose first name is never given) is the main antagonist of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel ""Rebecca"". Danvers is the head housekeeper at Manderley, the stately manor belonging to the wealthy Maximillian ""Maxim"" de Winter, where he once lived with his first wife, the eponymous Rebecca. Nicknamed ""Danny"" by Rebecca, Mrs. Danvers was Rebecca's maid as a child and following the death of her previous mistress, persecutes the new Mrs. de Winter. Danvers resents the new Mrs. de Winter, convinced she is trying to ""take Rebecca's place"" despite the two women never meeting and being nothing"
"Milady de Winter Milady de Winter, often referred to as simply Milady, is a fictional character in the novel ""The Three Musketeers"" (1844) by Alexandre Dumas, père, set in 1625 France. She is a spy for Cardinal Richelieu and is one of the dominant antagonists of the story. Her role in the first part of the book is to seduce the English Prime Minister, the Duke of Buckingham, who is also the secret lover of Queen Anne of France. Hoping to blackmail the Queen, Richelieu orders Milady to steal two diamonds from a set of matched studs given to Buckingham"
"With the exception of her real name (Countess de Winter), her origins never were revealed. It was hinted that 'only one man' knows of her past. In the movie ""The Return of the Musketeers"", Kim Cattrall plays Milady's daughter Justine de Winter as a female version of Mordaunt. Milady de Winter Milady de Winter, often referred to as simply Milady, is a fictional character in the novel ""The Three Musketeers"" (1844) by Alexandre Dumas, père, set in 1625 France. She is a spy for Cardinal Richelieu and is one of the dominant antagonists of the story. Her role in the"
"a dimwitted scavenger who constantly assures her he has said nothing and begs her not to commit him to the asylum, references the girl doesn't understand. Max's sister Beatrice and brother-in-law Giles convince him to revive his custom of hosting an annual costume ball at the estate. Mrs. Danvers suggests Mrs. de Winter replicate a dress worn by a family ancestor in a portrait hanging in the gallery. The girl complies, unaware the same costume was worn by Rebecca to much acclaim shortly before her death the previous year. When Max sees her descend the staircase just before the arrival"
"of his heroic action. For unrevealed reasons, they can never have children. Having lost Manderley and choosing not to rebuild it, Mr. and Mrs. de Winter now live a quiet life in a small hotel, seemingly free of Rebecca's hold. In the 1940 film adaptation of the Du Maurier novel directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the character of Rebecca is never seen. In the miniseries, she is shown from behind, and there are frequent flashes of her eyes and mouth (courtesy of Lucy Cohu), although her full face is never revealed. The second Mrs. de Winter is played by Emilia Fox,"
"of the Duke was fictionalised in Alexandre Dumas, père's ""The Three Musketeers"". In Dumas's novel, Felton is portrayed as a Puritan who serves the fictional Lord de Winter. Felton is entrusted by de Winter to guard Milady de Winter, the widow of his brother and a French spy. Milady's master, Cardinal Richelieu, has ordered her to have Buckingham murdered so that he will not aid the Huguenot cause in the city of La Rochelle. As they question each other she puts on a façade of sorrow and broken innocence, even pretending to be a Puritan like Felton, and inventing a"
"Not After Midnight Not After Midnight is a 1971 collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier. It was published in Britain under the title ""Not After Midnight"" by Gollancz (with a cover by Daphne du Maurier's daughter Flavia Tower), and published in America by Doubleday as Don't Look Now. The book contains several novella-length stories, all with different characters and themes but similar in that they touch on the supernatural or strange events. The Penguin Books edition, Harmondsworth and Ringwood, Victoria, Australia, was issued with the title ""Don't Look Now and Other Stories"" and a cover illustration by Charles"
"12 of the third part, which makes mention of a 1904 vintage wine, seems to confirm this supposition with a more specific range of time in which the novel is likely to be set. The setting must take place at least after 1898, the year in which the shipwreck of La Bourgogne occurred. In 2010, a French TV film based on the novel was directed by Benoît Jacquot, starring Melvil Poupaud as Edouard X., Maxime Berger as Olivier, and Dolores Chaplin as Lady Lilian Griffith. The Counterfeiters (novel) The Counterfeiters (French: ""Les Faux-monnayeurs"") is a 1925 novel by French author"
"like ""Junkieverdriet"" and ""De (ver)wording van de jonge Dürer"". The latter, which was also rewritten into a novel, is the story of an unemployed young boy who does not know how to handle life, and who goes slowly but inevitably insane. Until 1982 De Winter also wrote reviews for the weekly magazine ""Vrij Nederland"". His first successful novel was ""Zoeken naar Eileen W"" (1981). A film version of this was made by Rudolf van den Berg. In 1981 De Winter also wrote ""Place de la Bastille"". In 1986 the novel ""Kaplan"" was published. The protagonist of this novel is a"
"after learning that the crisis is over, Heft Vespius is arrested for forging the papers that allowed him to adopt Maris, and Vilnix is expelled from the Academy, vowing revenge. Wind Jackal suddenly arrives with a mission for Quint, and he and Maris board the ""Galerider"", vowing never again to be separated. The Winter Knights The Winter Knights is a children's fantasy novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, first published in 2005. It is the eighth volume of ""The Edge Chronicles"" and the second of the ""Quint Saga"" trilogy; within the stories' own chronology it is the second novel,"
"The Years Between (play) The Years Between is a play by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, better known as a novelist and particularly as the author of ""Rebecca"" (which she had adapted for the London stage in 1940). This is one of two original plays that she wrote. The other is"" September Tide"" (1948). Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, ""The Years Between"" unfolds in the library/living room of an English country house. The man of the house, Colonel Michael Wentworth, MP, is presumed dead after his plane crashed into the sea on a flight to"
"Jasper Fforde's ""Thursday Next"" series, in the book world, they have accidentally made Mrs. Danvers clones, which they use as troops against The Mispeling Vyrus. In ""Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction"", Adrian refers to his current girlfriend Marigold Flowers as having the same driving force of Mrs. Danvers. Mrs. Danvers Mrs. Danvers (whose first name is never given) is the main antagonist of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel ""Rebecca"". Danvers is the head housekeeper at Manderley, the stately manor belonging to the wealthy Maximillian ""Maxim"" de Winter, where he once lived with his first wife, the eponymous"
"The bond was so strong because the children were thrown together from earliest days by parents who were always on tour (a theatrical family), and not sent to school. Obviously, the author could draw upon her own vivid memories as life as the child of one of the most successful actors of the day, Gerald du Maurier. The Parasites The Parasites is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1949. In this novel, Miss du Maurier tells the story of the Delaney family. The Delaneys led complex and frequently scandalous lives; their strange relationship with each other closed"
"""Trilby"". Her elder sister, Angela du Maurier, also became a writer, and her younger sister Jeanne was a painter. Du Maurier's family connections helped her establish her literary career, and she published some of her early work in Beaumont's ""Bystander"" magazine. Her first novel, ""The Loving Spirit,"" was published in 1931. Du Maurier was also a cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J. M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play ""Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"". As a young child, Du Maurier met many prominent theatre actors, thanks to the celebrity of"
"Hungry Hill (novel) Hungry Hill is a novel by prolific British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1943. It was her seventh novel. There have been 33 editions of the book printed. This family saga is based on the history of the Irish ancestors of Daphne du Maurier’s friend Christopher Puxley. The family resembles the Puxleys who owned mines in Allihies, a parish in County Cork. The story spans the century from 1820 to 1920 following five male characters from a family of Anglo-Irish landowners, the Brodricks, who live in a castle called Clonmere. It is divided into five sub-books"
"from Madame Descoings. Philippe is soon afterwards arrested for his involvement in an anti-government conspiracy. Meanwhile, in Issoudun, Agathe's elder brother Jean-Jacques takes in an ex-soldier named Max Gilet as a boarder. Max is suspected of being his illegitimate half brother. Max and Jean-Jacques' servant Flore Brazier work together to control Jean-Jacques. Max leads a group of young men who call themselves ""The Knights of Idleness"" who frequently play practical jokes around the town. Two of these are against a Spanish immigrant named Fario, destroying his cart and his grain, and therefore ruining his business. It is now that Joseph"
"Robert Mazoyer, which ran in five episodes, starring Jacques Weber. Les Poneys sauvages Les Poneys sauvages (""the wild ponies"") is a 1970 novel by the French writer Michel Déon. It tells the story of five friends who studied together at an English university, and how their friendship and loyalty keep them together during World War II and the Cold War, as they spread over Europe and to varying degrees engage in poetry, espionage, travels and unpredictable behaviour. The narration alternates between a first-person perspective and that of an epistolary novel. The novel received the Prix Interallié. It was adapted into"
"Winter (Deighton novel) Winter is a 1987 novel by Len Deighton, which follows the lives of a German family from 1899 to 1945. At the same time the novel provides an historical background to several of the characters in Deighton's nine novels about the British intelligence agent Bernard Samson, who grew up in the ruins of Berlin after World War II. The narrative starts on the eve of the year 1900 with Harald Winter, a German businessman with two sons, Peter and Paul, two very different brothers, whose lives are inextricably linked with Germany in the years leading up to"
"her life in Cornwall, where most of her works are set. As her fame increased, she became more reclusive. Her parents were the actor/manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and stage actress Muriel Beaumont, and her grandfather was the cartoonist and writer George du Maurier. Daphne du Maurier was born in London, the middle of three daughters of prominent actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont. Her mother was a maternal niece of journalist, author, and lecturer William Comyns Beaumont. Her grandfather was author and ""Punch"" cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel"
"describing it as ""a masterful portrayal of the German Zeitgeist of almost half a century"" and that it ""makes comprehensible the awful appeal of Nazism to people of different persuasions"". Winter (Deighton novel) Winter is a 1987 novel by Len Deighton, which follows the lives of a German family from 1899 to 1945. At the same time the novel provides an historical background to several of the characters in Deighton's nine novels about the British intelligence agent Bernard Samson, who grew up in the ruins of Berlin after World War II. The narrative starts on the eve of the year"
"tricky magic, and even as Rois untangles him from his past, she is in constant danger of being ensnared herself. Winter Rose (novel) Winter Rose is a 1996 fantasy novel by American writer Patricia A. McKillip. It was nominated for the 1996 Nebula Award and 1997 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and was a finalist for the 1997 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. In 2006, McKillip published its sequel, ""Solstice Wood"". When Rois Melior, the wild daughter of a widowed father, first sees Corbet Lynn step from the woods, she is attracted to him despite a sense that"
"Winter (Meyer novel) Winter is a 2015 young adult science fiction novel written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. It is the fourth and final book in ""The Lunar Chronicles"" series and the sequel to ""Cress"". The story is loosely based on the fairy tale of ""Snow White"", similar to its predecessors ""Cinder"", ""Scarlet"" and ""Cress"" which were loosely based on ""Cinderella"", ""Little Red Riding Hood"" and ""Rapunzel"" respectively. It was a ""USA Today"" and ""Wall Street Journal"" bestselling novel. Due to Princess Winter's refusal to use the Lunar gift,"
"as in the original novel, is never identified by name – to spend time with the wealthy widower. When Mrs. Van Hopper announces plans to return to New York City, Max proposes to the girl and brings her to his Cornwall coast estate known as Manderley. There a large household staff is supervised by Mrs. Danvers, who was devoted to Max's first wife Rebecca, the victim of a sailing accident some ten months before, whose battered body was discovered forty miles up the coast and identified by her distraught husband. The new Mrs. de Winter feels overwhelmed by the vast"
"a musketeer. There he meets three old musketeers, members of the glorious King's Guard, but actually realizes that they are not the great fighters who he thinks they are. While joining the musketeers he is faced with the hidden plots of Cardinal Richelieu, his spy Milady de Winter and a possible war against England. In 1625 France, a poor young nobleman named d'Artagnan leaves his parents in Gascony and travels to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard. At an inn in Meung-sur-Loire, an older man derides d'Artagnan's horse. Insulted, d'Artagnan demands a duel with him. The older man's"
"The Princess of Montpensier (novella) The Princess of Montpensier is a short novel by Madame de La Fayette which came out anonymously in 1662 as her first published work. It is regarded not only as one of the first modern novels in French, but also as both the prototype and a masterpiece of the historical novel. Set in France during the Wars of Religion, it tells the story of a young noblewoman, married without affection and loved platonically by her husband's best friend, who cannot refuse her former fiancé's impetuous brother and collapses under the emotional stress. Some of the"
"Comte d'Artagnan, well-known through his fictionalized depiction in Alexandre Dumas's ""The Three Musketeers"" and its sequels. In 1966, the book was adapted into a film titled ""Angélique et le Roy"". After many trials, Angelique finally takes her place in Louis XIV's court alongside her new husband, who is the Marshal of France, Philippe de Plessis du Bellière. She has many problems with her new husband, who despises her for having blackmailed him into marriage. Eventually, she starts loving him (and vice versa) but he gets killed in the King's war at the Low Countries. She earns the undivided attention of"
"The Parasites The Parasites is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1949. In this novel, Miss du Maurier tells the story of the Delaney family. The Delaneys led complex and frequently scandalous lives; their strange relationship with each other closed their circle to all outsiders; the world in which they lived was sophisticated, gay, and sometimes tragic. Maria Delaney was a beautiful, successful actress, the wife of Sir Charles Wyndham. Niall Delaney wrote the songs and melodies that everyone sang and played. Celia their sister, generous and charming, took care of their father and delighted in Maria's"
"of the house, it is clear from a glow on the horizon and wind-borne ashes that it is ablaze. In 1937, Daphne du Maurier signed a three-book deal with Victor Gollancz and accepted an advance of £1,000. A 2008 article in ""The Daily Telegraph"" indicates she had been toying with the theme of jealousy for the five years since her marriage in 1932. She started ""sluggishly"" and wrote a desperate apology to Gollancz: ""The first 15,000 words I tore up in disgust and this literary miscarriage has cast me down rather."" Her husband, Tommy ""Boy"" Browning, was Lieutenant Colonel of"
"colleague named Guy Sangster who knew Marianne; however, Sangster, blinded by a wartime injury, cannot confirm her identity. He reveals that resistance fighter Paul Delamare, who worked with Marianne in France, is still alive in Dieppe and would be able to identify her. Max finds a young pilot named Adam Hunter, gives him a photograph with a ""classified"" note — asking if the woman in the photo is Marianne Beauséjour — and instructs him to obtain a ""yes"" or ""no"" answer from Delamare. Max and Marianne host a house party. Max's commanding officer Frank Heslop comes and tells him that"
"My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Like the earlier ""Rebecca"", it is a mystery-romance, set primarily on a large estate in Cornwall. The story has its origins in a portrait of Rachel Carew at Antony House in Cornwall, which du Maurier saw and took as inspiration. Ambrose Ashley is the owner of a large country estate on the Cornish coast and has been guardian to his orphaned cousin Philip since he was three years old. On Sundays, Philip's godfather, Nick Kendall, and his daughter Louise come to lunch"
"and suspects her to be an opponent. ""Delphine""'s publication in 1802 makes things even worse : Madame de Staël is exiled from Paris, and forbidden to get closer than 40 ""lieues"" from the city. When publishing ""Delphine"", she claims she is not interested in politics any more. Yet, this novel dedicated to ""the silent France"" (""la France silencieuse"" in French) explicitly talks about subjects like women's status, but also political and sociological subjects like Protestantism, political liberalism or emigration. The story takes place in Paris between 1789 and 1792 during the French Revolution. Delphine d'Albémar, a young widow, arranges a"
"gets in trouble with the law, FX travels to Louisiana to help him. FX's given name, Fantine, is the same name of Moinette's friend, a fellow slave at the Rosière plantation. The title of the book is from a phrase that Moinette’s mother, Marie-Thérèse, used to describe Moinette. ""Between Heaven and Here"" is about the aftermath of Glorette Picard's death. Glorette, a crack-addicted prostitute, was Victor's mother and FX Antoine's childhood friend. Glorette and FX's families are connected by the story that was the catalyst for ""A Million Nightingales"". In the background story of this novel and the previous one,"