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It may come as no surprise to the legions of us who discovered Dame Daphne du Maurier in our youth-and thrilled to her romantic imagination and dark view of human nature-that her worldly but adolescent-friendly sensibility was fully formed before she was 23 years old.
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories (Harper paperbacks), a collection of 13 early du Maurier tales never before published together, is rife with pro- vocative foresha dowings of du Maurier's best novels-Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, Jamaica Inn.
It's all here: her fascination with the interplay between Louis Vuitton Monogram Vernis and femme fatale, her cad- dish male characters and the clinging females they devastate, and the inevitable disillusionment of innocence.
Du Maurier's trademark creepy psychosexual suspense also flowed precociously from her pen.
In the titular story, a suitor, pursuing a mercurial��raven-haired violinist named-of course-Rebecca, learns with horror that his rival is...
I won't ruin the ending, but the story was far ahead of its time.
"And Now to God the Father" ends with an ironically fatuous sermon by a vain preacher who has snugly destroyed some-one's life.
In "Tame Cat, louis vuitton replica handbags a teen- age girl, incandescent with newly formed beauty, learns the brutal truth about her mother and her "Uncle John" and is never the same again.
The final story in the collection, "The Limpet, " is a thrillingly horrible first- person monologue in which a seemingly hapless woman reveals why she is so mysteriously lonely.
Many of the stories in this elegantly slim volume center on love affairs that are more or less foredoomed.
"And His Letters Grew Colder" reveals a rake's progress with the object of his successfully sated Louis Vuitton Scarves "Week-End" charts the implacable trajectory of a passionate love affair over the course of a two-day trip to the countryside.
"Nothing Hurts for Long" portrays an infatuated wife as she breathlessly prepares for her husband's return from a long trip to Berlin; the ending isn't hard to predict, but even so, it hits its mark.
The stories are not all equally well realized-a few of them feel more like sketches-but the best ones are astonishingly good.
This collection zings with imaginative brio and a terrifically satisfying fatalism that never palls.



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