The Pursuit of Happyness or Mary Ann

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The books of the English writer Daphne Du Maurier (1907–1989) have become classics of XNUMXth century literature. A master of subtle psychological portraiture and a virtuoso of intrigue, Du Maurier, like no one else, knows how to keep the reader in suspense. Not without reason, one of the admirers of her talent was the film director Alfred Hitchcock, who shot famous film thrillers based on her works: Rebecca, The Birds, The Jamaica Inn... The novel The Pursuit of Happyness, or Mary Ann, published between famous books My Cousin Rachel and Scapegoat, when the writer was at the top of her game, has been hailed as one of Daphne Du Maurier's best books. Plunging into the atmosphere of XNUMXth century England, the author recreates the image of his extravagant great-great-grandmother and tells the story of her truly amazing life, full of ups and downs. Mary Ann had an incredible fate and an incredible character, which combined prudence and recklessness, gullibility and cunning, causticity and good nature, fearlessness and debauchery ... She managed to get out of the miserable London slums, becoming a famous courtesan and mistress of the Duke of York, brother of King George III , to reach the heights of power, and then, getting involved in a high-profile corruption scandal and political intrigues, she put her future and her life at stake ...

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Barcode: 9785389141919 SKU: 70165462 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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