The Birds And Other Stories
On sale
1st October 2015
Price: £16.99
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA
With an Introduction by ‘Britain’s most sophisticated film critic’ David Thomson, THE TIMES
‘A remarkable imagination continually provokes both pity and terror’ OBSERVER
‘One of the last century’s most original literary talents’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality’ GUARDIAN
‘How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . .’
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.
With an Introduction by ‘Britain’s most sophisticated film critic’ David Thomson, THE TIMES
‘A remarkable imagination continually provokes both pity and terror’ OBSERVER
‘One of the last century’s most original literary talents’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality’ GUARDIAN
‘How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . .’
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.
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Reviews
She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense, and she was, too, a writer of fearless originality
A remarkable imagination continually provokes both pity and terror
Building from an almost pastoral scene of autumnal Cornwall, this carefully realistic story builds into unfathomable horror
One of the last century's most original literary talents