The first author for Explore the Classics is Daphne du Maurier with sign ups starting today and will be open until the 29th. The tour will run from August 17 -31, please keep that in mind when selecting date preferences.
About Daphne du Maurier and her writing:
~ from Daphne du Maurier.org
Fiction Novels:
- The Loving Spirit (1931)
- I’ll Never Be Young Again (1932)
- The Progress of Julius (1933) (later re-published as Julius)
- Jamaica Inn (1936)
- Rebecca (1938)
- Frenchman’s Creek (1941)
- Hungry Hill (1943)
- The King’s General (1946)
- The Parasites (1949)
- My Cousin Rachel (1951)
- Mary Anne (1954)
- The Scapegoat (1957)
- Castle Dor (1961)
- The Glass-Blowers (1963)
- The Flight of the Falcon (1965)
- The House on the Strand (1969)
- Rule Britannia (1972)
Short Stories:
- Happy Christmas (1940)
- Come Wind, Come Weather (1940)
- The Breaking Point (1959)
- The Birds and Other Stories (1963)
- Don’t Look Now (1971)
- The Rendezvous and Other Stories (1980)
Plays:
- September Tide (1948)
- The Years Between (1945)
Non-Fiction:
- Gerald: A Portrait (1934)
- The du Mauriers (1937)
- The Young George du Maurier: a selection of his letters 1860–67 (1951)
- The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (1960)
- Vanishing Cornwall (includes photographs by her son Christian, 1967)
- Golden Lads: Sir Francis Bacon, Anthony Bacon and their Friends (1975)
- The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall (1976)
- Growing Pains – the Shaping of a Writer (a.k.a. Myself When Young – the Shaping of a Writer, 1977)
- Enchanted Cornwall (1989)
To Participate:
For the Daphne du Maurier tour read and review one of her works and post about it on your blog on an appointed day. If you would prefer to read a biography or do a write up on the author instead that is perfectly fine too.
If you want to tweet about this fantastic! The not so official hashtag for the tour is:
#exploretheclassicsdumaurier
I also made a banner for the event, so feel free to use it or the “Explore the Classics” button above.
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