![]() Often chilling, sometimes poignant, these stories display the full range of Daphne du Maurier’s considerable talent. Her characters are caught at those moments when the delicate link between reason and emotion has been stretched to the breaking point. In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination. A knock on the door, and someone answers – a woman yawning, an old man in carpet slippers, a child sent by its parents in irritation and according to what I will, what I decide, their whole future will be decided. “They don’t know,” he thought, “those people inside, how one gesture of mine, now, at this minute, might alter their world. ![]() ‘The apathy of Sunday lay upon the streets. ‘The appeal of romance and the clash of highly-charged emotions’ NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE The Breaking Point Hardcover Januby Daphne du Maurier (Author), Margot Tomes (Illustrator) 24 ratings Kindle 6.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 19.08 8 Used from 15.00 Paperback 15.81 17 Used from 3.00 Mass Market Paperback 6.97 5 Used from 3. THE BREAKING POINT - Daphne Du Maurier - 9 BIZARRE & TERRIFYING TALES OF MADNESS Publisher: Pocket Books Inc. ‘She wrote exciting plots … a writer of fearless originality’ PATRICK MCGRATH, GUARDIAN ![]() ‘In this collection, Daphne du Maurier’s peerless craftmanship, her eerie sense of the macabre, her gift for sheer story telling come to full fruition’ KIRKUS REVIEWS ![]()
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