Don't Look Now [novella]
by Daphne Du Maurier
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Nach dem tragischen Unfalltod ihrer kleinen Tochter fahren John Baxter und seine Frau Laura nach Venedig, um Abstand zu gewinnen. Kaum angelangt, deuten jedoch mysteriöse Vorfälle und Zeichen darauf hin, dass der Albtraum noch lange nicht zu Ende ist.Tags
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Daphne Du Maurier was born in London on May 13, 1907 and educated in Paris. In 1932, she married Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning. She began writing short stories of mystery and suspense for magazines in 1928, a collection of which appeared as The Apple Tree in 1952. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931. Her tightly show more woven, highly suspenseful plots and her strong characters make her stories perfect for adaptation to film or television. Among her many novels that were made into successful films are Jamaica Inn (1936), Rebecca (1938), Frenchman's Creek (1941), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1952), and The Scapegoat (1957). Her short story, The Birds (1953), was brought to the screen by director Alfred Hitchcock in a treatment that has become a classic horror-suspense film. She died on April 19, 1989 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Don't Look Now; Don't Look Now [novella]
- Original title
- Don't look now
- Original publication date
- 1971 (in Not After Midnight, and Other Stories) (in Not After Midnight, and Other Stories)
- Important places
- Venice, Veneto, Italy; Crete, Greece; Ballyfane, County Wexford, Ireland
- Related movies
- Don't Look Now (1973 | IMDb); The Birds (1963 | IMDb)
- First words
- "Don't look now," John said to his wife, "but there are a couple of old girls two table away who are trying to hypnotise me."
'Don't look now,' John said to his wife, 'but there are a couple of old girls two tables away who are trying to hypnotise me.' - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The hammering and the voices and the barking dog grew fainter, and, 'Oh God,' he thought, 'what a bloody silly way to die....'
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- Folio Society edition contains stories: Don't Look Now; The Apple Tree; The Pool; The Blue Lenses; Kiss Me Again, Stranger; The Chamois; Not After Midnight; The Old Man; The Birds. There seem to be a number of different confi... (show all)gurations using this same title, but they do not always contain the same stories, or even the same number of stories. The copyright page states that this Folio Society edition was originally published under the title "Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories" (UK (1976), by Victor Gollancz Ltd; USA (1977) by Doubleday)
This work is the single story or novella "Don't Look Now". Do not combine this with anthologies or collections, some of which are also titled "Don't Look Now".
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