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The Folio Society (1991), Edition: 1st Edition Thus. Boxed set of four novels
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High-spirited Mary Yellan was too young to suspect the truth about her new home on the moor. Yet she began to wonder why no one came to Jamaica Inn and why her aunt was so frightened.
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LibraryThing member KatharineDB
Rebecca/Jamaica Inn/Frenchman's Creek/My Cousin Rachel all in one volume- I think my favorite was My Cousin Rachel. great suspense and perfect summer reading.
LibraryThing member techeditor
Here I review JAMAICA INN, alone, and mark this book as read until I read the other novels in this book. Although I read REBECCA many years ago, I will have to reread it in order to review it.
After reading JAMAICA INN, I could confirm that my reading taste has changed over the years, but it also
Mary, the main character of JAMAICA INN, has come to Jamaica Inn to live with her aunt and uncle after her mother's death. Her uncle turns out to be a horrible man who Mary comes to detest. Mary learns, usually through deliberate snooping but sometimes against her will, her uncle's business.
DuMaurier clearly intended to show that Mary is above the usual role cut out for the 19th century woman. Even so, in order to enjoy this novel, the reader still has to accept that it was written with 1940s sensibilities.
After reading JAMAICA INN, I could confirm that my reading taste has changed over the years, but it also
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has remained the same. That is, the flowery (for lack of a better word) language that Daphne DuMaurier uses and the sexist remarks scattered here and there irritated me in 2016 while I accepted both when I read REBECCA in 1969. But, after a while, I just enjoyed the story and accepted it as it was written in the 1940s.Mary, the main character of JAMAICA INN, has come to Jamaica Inn to live with her aunt and uncle after her mother's death. Her uncle turns out to be a horrible man who Mary comes to detest. Mary learns, usually through deliberate snooping but sometimes against her will, her uncle's business.
DuMaurier clearly intended to show that Mary is above the usual role cut out for the 19th century woman. Even so, in order to enjoy this novel, the reader still has to accept that it was written with 1940s sensibilities.
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Original publication date
1978
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A boxed set of Daphne du Maurier's four popular Cornish novels, written between 1936 and 1951.