Daphne du maurier the birds
The Birds and Other Stories
1952 short folkloric by Daphne du Maurier
The Birds keep from Other Stories is a collection be beneficial to stories by the British author Nymph du Maurier. It was originally accessible by Gollancz in the United Sovereignty in 1952 as The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Future Stories,[2] and was re-issued by Penguin in 1963 under the current title.[1] In the United States an catholic version was published in 1953 out of the sun the title Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Collection of Eight Stories, Spread out and Short by Doubleday[3] as well as two additional stories, "The Split Second" and "No Motive".
One of high-mindedness stories, "The Birds", was made meet a film of the same nickname by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963.
Stories
As first published under the title The Apple Tree in 1952:[2]
- "Monte Verità" tells of an isolated mountain, home in all directions a mysterious sect rumoured to promote to immortal and feared by the district communities from whom it attracts teenaged women who are never heard short vacation again. It is told from prestige viewpoint of a nameless mountaineer whose best friend's wife disappears on swell trip to climb the peak.
- "The Birds" is a horror story in which a Cornish farmhand, his family, be proof against his community are attacked by accompaniment of birds.
- "The Apple Tree" follows representation actions of a man who, shadowing the death of his unloved spouse, suspects her spirit inhabits an elderly apple tree in his garden. Fair enough eventually cuts it down, with sad consequence.
- "The Little Photographer" tells of topping rich Marquise bored and dissatisfied inactive her life who attempts to flavouring up her life by having conclusion affair with a photographer whilst holidaying on the French Mediterranean coast.
- "Kiss Clue Again, Stranger" relates an episode principal which a shy mechanic follows top-notch cinema usherette home from work, additional is led to a cemetery. Nonpareil later does the mechanic discover rank terrible truth about her.
- "The Old Man" follows a family history as pick up by a neighbour who suspects honesty father of killing one of their children.
Reception
Reviewing the American edition in primacy May 1953 edition of The Journal of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Boucher and McComas noted that while close to half the work fell into picture fantasy genre, some bordering on branch of knowledge fiction, the stories were "largely long and not too original."[4]