Daphne Du Maurier, storyteller extraordinaire, has long been beloved for her spellbinding twisty plots and alluring female characters. Du Maurier's fiction transformed everyday dramas--love, jealousy, loss--into the stuff of gothic nightmares. Not only are Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel page-turners, but their complex plots and ambiguous characters are crafted in indelible, elegant prose. (Rebecca was a bestseller that has never gone out of print for 88 years!) Directors Alfred Hitchcock and Nicholas Roeg were inspired to make two of her stories into films. The Birds and Don't Look Now are cinematic masterpieces of suspense and terror. This SDG explores Du Maurier's most well-known novels and short fiction paired with their iconic films. Over 11 weeks, we will read two novels, two short stories, and watch four films.

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