基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：272 页
出版日期：2006年06月
ISBN：0141188375
条形码：9780141188379
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Modern Classics
外文书名：《水都奇遇》和其它小说

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John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter’s death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The four other haunting, evocative stories in this volume also explore deep fears and longings, secrets and desires: a lonely teacher who investigates a mysterious American couple; a young woman confronting her father’s past; a party of pilgrims who meet disaster in Jerusalem; a scientist who harnesses the power of the mind to chilling effect …
作者简介 Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) - English novelist, biographer, and playwright, who published romantic suspense novels, mostly set on the coast of Cornwall. Du Maurier is best known for REBECCA (1938), filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940.