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From the author of The Pleasing Hour: A “moving and deeply absorbing” novel of painful truths and the refuge of fiction set in a New England prep school (Newsday).
 
A Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly Best Novel
 
Fifteen years ago, English teacher Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at the elite Fayer Academy. Living on the campus off the coast of New England,...

"Daphne du Maurier's classic gothic thriller in a hardcover Everyman's Library edition with a new introduction, bibliography, and chronology"-- The new mistress of Manderley's Cornwall estate must constantly compete with the memory of Maxim de Winter's first wife, Rebecca. "The only hardcover edition of the beloved, internationally best-selling gothic mystery. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. The unassuming young heroine of Rebecca finds...

A fictional re-creation of the lives of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of Denmark, in the years before the action of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" begins.

Maxim de Winter regresa a Menderley, la casa en la que vivía con su primera esposa, Rebecca, que murió ahogada en el mar. Regresa con su nueva e inocente mujer, la cual descubrirá que Menderley no es el mundo perfecto que ella cree: allí vive también la inquietante señora Danvers, el ama de llaves, quien no sólo no acepta a

"When Alex met Natalie she changed his life. After the tragic death of his first wife, which left him a single parent to teenage daughter Jade, he was desperate to leave the pain of his past behind. But his newfound happiness is shattered when the family home is gutted by fire and his loyalties are unexpectedly tested. Jade insists she saw a man in the house on the night of the fire; Natalie denies any knowledge of such an intruder. One of them must...