The Birds & Other Stories -

Daphne Du Maurier

Virago

2012

243 páginas

8h 6m

ISBN-13: 9781405518277

A classic of alienation and horror, ‘The Birds’ was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man’s sense of dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of ‘Monte Verità’ promises immortality, but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject’s life; a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery; and a jealous father finds a remedy when three’s a crowd . . .

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Simplicidade é tudo

Tem contos realmente bons aqui! O forte da autora sempre foi, pelo menos para mim, narrar a história pela perspectiva feminina do que a a masculina. Daphne usou muitos elementos da natureza para representar um terror simples, mas eficaz.