Daphne du maurier the birds

short stories by Daphne du Maurier

The Birds and Other Stories is a collection of stories by the British author Daphne du Maurier. It was originally published by Gollancz in the United Kingdom in as The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories,^[2] and was re-issued by Penguin in under the current title.^[1] In the United States an expanded version was published in under the title Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Collection of Eight Stories, Long and Short by Doubleday^[3] including two additional stories, "The Split Second" and "No Motive".

One of the stories, "The Birds", was made into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock in

Stories

As first published under the title The Apple Tree in ^[2]

• "Monte Verità" tells of an isolated mountain, home to a mysterious sect rumoured to be immortal and feared by the local communities from whom it attracts young women who are never hear

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  The Birds

  November 2,

  A scary story (and film) for Halloween!
  
  I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds () igen last night, and loved it perhaps more than ever, one of his very best films (well, let's säga, in the top ten, because there are a lot of them, of course). It is based in part on a short story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, first published in in her collection The Apple Tree (retitled The Birds and Other Stories). Her story, which I have also now once igen reread, fryst vatten deliciously scary, and different than the film in a few ways, though it fryst vatten close enough to call the bio an adaptation. Du Maurier’s story fryst vatten set on a farm in her home county of Cornwall shortly after WWII. Birds attack humans for no known reason, and it gets worse and worse. By the end of the story it fryst vatten clear all of Britain is beneath aerial assault. Hitchcock sets his tale in Bodega Bay, north of San Francisco. Breezy, optimistic, natural setting. Room to breathe there--at first--then things get increasin

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  The Birds (story)

  short story by Daphne du Maurier

  This article is about the du Maurier story. For the Norwegian novel by Tarjei Vesaas, see The Birds (novel). For the film based on the story, see The Birds (film).

  "The Birds"
  Country	United Kingdom
  Genre(s)	Horror, thriller, novelette
  Published in	The Apple Tree
  Publisher	Penguin Books
  Media type	Print
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  "The Birds" is a horror story by the British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her collection The Apple Tree. The story is set in du Maurier's home county of Cornwall shortly after the end of the Second World War. A farmhand, his family and community come under lethal attack from flocks of birds.

  The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name, released in , the same year that The Apple Tree was reprinted as The Birds and Other Stories. In , the Irish playwright Conor McPherson adapted the story for the stage at Dublin's Gate Thea

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