"to the perfect sentence: ""Last night, I dreamt of Glocca Morra...again."" (The reference parodies: ""Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"", the famous first line of Daphne du Maurier's ""Rebecca."") The song is referenced in the ""Sports Night"" episode ""Celebrities"" (Season 2, Episode 15) and the song title is directly used as the title of an episode from Season 1 (Episode 17). When Goody Rickles (Don Rickles' sillier look-alike) comically mangles the name of the deadly compound ""Pyrogranulate"" in the comic book ""Jimmy Olsen"" 139, by Jack Kirby, what comes out is ""Pyro-Glocca-Morra"". In an episode of ""All"
"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 novel, is known to this day as a ""trilby"". The plot inspired Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel ""Phantom of the Opera"" and the innumerable works derived from it. Du Maurier eventually came to dislike the persistent attention given to his novel. The third novel was a long, largely autobiographical work entitled ""The Martian"", only published posthumously in 1896. George du Maurier was a close friend of Henry James, the novelist; their relationship was fictionalised in David Lodge's ""Author, Author"". He was buried in St John-at-Hampstead churchyard in Hampstead parish in London. George du Maurier George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). However, the description of the Brodricks' mansion reportedly was based on the Puxleys' mansion in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. The story was made into a film in 1947 directed by Brian Desmond Hurst 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"
"1850: ""It surely needs a lot of courage to settle in this wilderness, on a scarcely discernible way. The first three winters we have spent alone here, surrounded by this frightening isolation and this total silence."" During the summer 0f 2010 Jessica Talley, noted American photographer and dancer lived with the notorious socialite Eliza F M Wright on the top floor of number 11. In direct neighborhood grew up at nearly the same time the writer and caricaturist George du Maurier who was born on March 6, 1834 in Paris. In his first novel ""Peter Ibbetson"" (published in 1891), which"
"Li agrees to arrange her divorce. Magda has another hallucination of mystical voices, who identify themselves as the Dark Sisterhood, working for the long-term survival of Darkover. She also foresees that Jaelle will become pregnant by Damon Ridenow (Cleindori Aillard). Thendara House Thendara House is a science fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, part of her Darkover series and is a sequel to ""The Shattered Chain"". It was originally published by DAW Books (No. 544) in 1983. The book was co-written by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, without credit. In terms of the Darkover timeline, the events of Thendera House take"
"to the right) was also based in Menabilly and was the Sheriff of Cornwall in 1687. He was the grandson of Jonathan Rashleigh the merchant and House of Commons politician . Philip Rashleigh (1729–1811) was a Cornish mineral expert and Member of Parliament for Fowey. In the Return of Owners of Land, 1873 Mr Jonathan Rashleigh of Menabilly Estate, Par, was listed as the largest landowner in Cornwall with an estate of or 3.97% of the total area of Cornwall. The estate contains pleasure grounds and a large country house which was Daphne du Maurier's inspiration for the house Manderley"
"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"
"Rule Britannia (novel) Rule Britannia is Daphne du Maurier's last novel, published in 1972 by Victor Gollancz. The novel is set in a fictional near future in which the UK's recent withdrawal from the EEC has brought the country to the verge of bankruptcy. Emma, 20, lives with her elderly grandmother, Mad (short for ‘Madam’), a famous retired actress, in the small village of Poldrea in Cornwall. They share a large house near the coast with Mad's six ‘maladjusted’ adopted sons who range in age from 3 to 18. One morning, Emma wakes to the sound of aeroplanes overhead. An"
"In the meantime, Maud is shocked to discover Madame de la Rougierre residing at Bartram-Haugh in the employ of Silas, and she suspects also that Dudley may not have fled. Despite strong protest by Maud, Madame is charged with accompanying her first to London, and then on to Dover and across the Channel. After falling asleep during the journey and being escorted under the cover of darkness, Maud awakes to find herself again at Bartram-Haugh: she had in fact been on a round trip to London and back. Maud finds herself now imprisoned in one of the mansion's many bedrooms"
"she tells the doctor that he had better go down into the basement, where Mad has been asleep for a very long time. The novel concludes with the helicopters still flying eastward into the sun. The book is dedicated to the actress Gladys Cooper, who died in 1971. Cooper had been one of the leading ladies of Daphne's father, the actor and impresario Gerald du Maurier. Du Maurier started work on the novel early in 1972, following up an idea she had had for ""a funny novel … mocking everything"". It was to be ""a mockup of what this country"
"into the wilderness of Louisiana, hoping to reach an English settlement. Manon dies of exposure and exhaustion the following morning and, after burying his beloved, Des Grieux is eventually taken back to France by Tiberge. In the novel ""The Lady of the Camellias"" by Alexandre Dumas ""fils"", ""Manon Lescaut"" is an all-important model and point of comparison for Marguerite's life, loves, and death. In the opening pages, the narrator encounters a copy of ""Manon Lescaut"" in the auction of Marguerite Gautier's estate, and buys it. He reflects that Marguerite died alone in a ""sumptuous bed"" and Manon in the desert"
"she agrees to marry him and, after the wedding and honeymoon, accompanies him to his mansion in Cornwall, the beautiful West Country estate Manderley. Mrs Danvers, the sinister housekeeper, was profoundly devoted to the first Mrs de Winter, Rebecca, who died in a boating accident about a year before Maxim and the second Mrs de Winter met. She continually attempts to undermine the new Mrs de Winter psychologically, subtly suggesting to her that she will never attain the beauty, urbanity, and charm her predecessor possessed. Whenever the new Mrs de Winter attempts to make changes at Manderley, Mrs Danvers describes"
"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"
"new wife. Maxim picks up Ich at the train station in Cornwall, and they kiss passionately (""Jenseits der Nacht""). But far away there is a red glow in the sky. Manderley is burning! Maxim and Ich hurry home as the servants run around with buckets of water (""Feuer, feuer, Manderley in Flammen!""). Mrs. Danvers stands inside the house at the top of the staircase dressed in Rebecca's nightgown, holding a candelabra in her hand as the flames consume Manderley. Maxim and Ich arrive, and Frank runs towards them. Inside, Danvers inclines the candles to the stairway handrail and sets it"
"rare writer of ideas who can turn a ruminative passage into something deeply personal. She can also be wickedly funny, most often at the expense of the unexamined life."" ""Ghost Lights"" was the second in an acclaimed cycle of novels that began with ""How the Dead Dream"" in 2008. The third, ""Magnificence"" (2012) completes the cycle. "" Magnificence"" introduced Susan Lindley, a woman adrift after her husband's death and the dissolution of her family. Embarking on a new phase in her life after inheriting her uncle's sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy, Susan decides to restore the extensive"
"amateur poker player. Mandery's first novel ""Dreaming of Gwen Stefani"" was published in 2007. A review about the book was available on Booklist magazine. The novel deals with a mathematical genius and hot-dog vendor, who falls in love with Gwen Stefani. Mandery's second novel, ""First Contact, Or, It's Later Than You Think"", was published by HarperCollins in January, 2010. It is a story of a hyper-intelligent alien species and a dim-witted President, who is mistrustful of the aliens without basis. The book was reviewed in Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal and the Winnipeg Free Press. Q was published by HarperCollins"
"1983. This horrible witch, feared by the fishermen, lays a curse on the Bowley family. A ""mystical and fantastic"" novel, ""La Pâleur et le Sang"" includes the ' among the mysterious and almost diabolical forces that assail the island of Vindilis. This old woman is portrayed as having ""magical and evil powers"", and as threatening with reprisals those characters who offend her. Her murder is one of the causes of the misfortunes that hit the island. A ' also appears in ""Absinthes & Démons"", a collection of short stories by Amber Dubois published in 2012. In Jean Teulé's novel ""Fleur"
"Other than that, he gets little character development and acts as more of a side character for Douglas and Tom's adventures. ""Dandelion Wine"" has been described as the first of Bradbury's nostalgic ""autobiographical fantasies,"" in which he recreates the childhood memories of his hometown, Waukegan, in the form of a lyrical work, with realistic plots and settings touched with fantasy to represent the magic and wonders of childhood. Even with the focus on the bright days of summer, Bradbury, in his typical style, briefly explores the horrific side of these events. The primary example is when Douglas' initial joy at"
"Dæmonomania Daemonomania is a 2000 Modern Fantasy novel by John Crowley. It is Crowley's seventh novel, and as the third novel in Crowley's Ægypt Sequence, a sequel to Crowley's 1994 novel ""Love & Sleep"". The novel follows protagonist Pierce Moffett as he continues his book project begun in ""The Solitudes"" about the Renaissance and Hermeticism, while dealing with a stormy relationship with his girlfriend Rosie Ryder. Like the previous novels, the novel has four main narrative strands, one occurring in the present day generally following Pierce or Rosie Mucho in their artistic works, and two occurring in the Renaissance following"
"the novel takes place. 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"
"of the Rue de la Pompe, the chestnut trees in flower – even the small burnt bread, black coffee, and tobacco on the warm spring air – rise from the pages of his novel …"" Wistfully, George du Maurier has also dealt with the rapid alterations, Passy had been involved - especially as a result of the annexation to Paris on January 1, 1860. 12 years after he had been taken away from his beloved Passy to London by his uncle, his protagonist Peter Ibbetson returns to Passy for the first time: the old house was no more, but in"
"sisters. It is clear from correspondence in later life between du Maurier and the 10th Earl that the happiness and freedom experienced during these childhood visits made an impact on the future writer which she never forgot. She told Lord Fitzwilliam that when she wrote ""Rebecca"" 20 years later, the interior of Manderley was based on her recollection of the rooms and 'big house feel' of Milton in the First World War, and referred to Milton in a letter to the last Lord Fitzwilliam as ""dear old Milton."" During the Falklands War, on 30 April 1982, the Prime Minister Margaret"
"well as the four-episode series ""Special Task Force MSS"" (2011), and ""The True Colors of Gang and Cheol"" (2012). He returned to theater in early 2013. Based on the novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier and the 1940 film by Alfred Hitchcock, the gothic musical ""Rebecca"" takes place in Manderley, a stately mansion owned by aristocratic widower Maxim DeWinter (played by Oh), whose memory of Rebecca, his beautiful dead wife who drowned in a boating accident, keeps haunting him and his new bride. Jukebox musical ""Those Days"" (also known as ""The Days"") featured folk-rock singer Kim Kwang-seok's"
"University of Pennsylvania faculty in 1972. She remained on the faculty there until her retirement in 2009. Her books include ""Our Vampires, Ourselves""; ""Private Theatricals: The Lives of the Victorians""; ""Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time""; ""Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts""; ""Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth""; and ""Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction"" (Harvard University Press). Her most recent book, ""Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress"" (2000, ), inaugurated the University of Pennsylvania Press series, Personal Takes. Before her death, she was working on a project tentatively titled ""Lost Lives"", a study of"
"manor, and Mrs. Danvers does nothing to put her at ease, although she finds a friend in Frank Crawley, who oversees the estate. The young bride's discomfort with her new lifestyle isn't helped by the fact the memory of Rebecca has a strong hold on Manderley and all of its inhabitants and visitors. Lacking self-confidence, she commits one faux pas after another until she is convinced Max is still deeply in love with his seemingly perfect first wife and regrets his impetuous decision to marry his second one. She is also curious about a cottage on the beach and Ben,"
"to solve the case. Nightmare in New Orleans Nightmare in New Orleans is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery crossover novel, published in 1997. The Royal Creole, a Creole restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana, is opened for business by Shelly and Remy Maspero. Nancy Drew heads up there to congratulate her friends, but ends up trying to figure out the strange mishaps that have arisen there. Meanwhile, the Hardys are there too, trying to uncover the facts behind a million-dollar heist in a riverboat casino, and the facts suggest that Remy Maspero is the culprit. With time running out"
"during the Second World War. Under the name ""Port de Brume"" Le Havre is the setting for three other novels by this author: ""Cerfs-volants"" (Kites), ""L'Aventure de Noël"" (The Adventure at Christmas), and ""La Queue à la pègre"" (Queue to the underworld). Michel Leiris wrote ""De la littérature considérée comme une tauromachie"" (Of literature considered like a bullfight) in December 1945. Diana Gabaldon set the second novel in her ""Outlander"" series, ""Dragonfly in Amber"" (1992), partly in Le Havre. Two mystery novels take place in Le Havre: ""Le Bilan Maletras"" (The Maletras Balance) by Georges Simenon and ""Le Crime de"
"Web of Dreams Web of Dreams was written in 1990 by V. C. Andrews ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman. It is the fifth and final novel in The Casteel Series, and serves as a prequel to ""Heaven"". Told primarily from the viewpoint of Heaven Casteel's mother, Leigh VanVoreen, the novel explains her secrets and circumstances as a 13-year-old girl who was forced to flee her wealthy Boston home, resulting in her dying in childbirth and leaving her daughter Heaven to be raised motherless in the hills of the West Virginia mountains. The novel opens with Annie Casteel Stonewall returning to Farthinggale Manor"
"and a sequel. ""Magonia"", the story of a 16-year-old girl with a mysterious breathing disease who finds herself on a sky ship in the historical kingdom of Magonia, was published in April 2015. It received a starred review in ""Publishers Weekly"" in February, 2015, being named one of the ""Publishers Weekly"" Best Books of 2015. It was a ""New York Times"" Young Adult bestseller in 2015. The sequel, ""Aerie"", was published in 2016. In early 2010, Dutton purchased Headley's debut novel ""Queen of Kings"", which explores ""the transcendent powers of love even beyond death, entwining the true story of Antony"