Myself When Young

by Daphne du Maurier

Overview

Both in her novels and her memoirs, Daphne du Maurier revealed an ardent desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries she kept between 1920 and 1932, du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her marriage. Often painfully honest, she recounts her difficult relationship with her father, her education in Paris, her early love affairs, her antipathy towards London life, and her desperate ambition to succeed as a writer. The resulting self-portrait is of a complex, utterly captivating young woman.

"An intimate view of a creative personality...as richly evocative as any of her novels."-Los Angeles Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316254373
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	12/17/2013
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Daphne du Maurier (1907-89) was born in London, the daughter of the actor Sir Gerald du Maurier and granddaughter of the author and artist George du Maurier. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, but it would be her fifth novel, Rebecca, that made her one of the most popular authors of her day.

Besides novels, du Maurier wrote plays, biographies, and several collections of short fiction. Many of her works were made into films, including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, My Cousin Rachel, "Don't Look Now," and "The Birds." She lived most of her life in Cornwall, and was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1969.

Editorial Reviews

A delightful book, full of amusing and charming stories, pinpointing the literary influences and the first stirrings of books to be written in later years, and with a happy and romantic ending—The Times

The girl we meet, a strong-winged bird homing in to the steep banks of a Cornish river, is herself no mean romantic enigma—Sunday Times

An intimate view of a creative personality ... as richly evocative as any of her novels—Los Angeles Times

Daphne du Maurier has no equal—Sunday Telegraph

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