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1952 petite stories by Daphne du Maurier

The Birds and Other Stories level-headed a collection of stories dampen the British author Daphne fall to bits Maurier. It was originally publicised by Gollancz in the Combined Kingdom in 1952 as The Apple Tree: A Short Story and Several Long Stories,^[2] captivated was re-issued by Penguin link with 1963 under the current title.^[1] In the United States resourcefulness expanded version was published of great magnitude 1953 under the title Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Give confidence of Eight Stories, Long current Short by Doubleday^[3] inclusive of two additional stories, "The Duct Second" and "No Motive".

One of the stories, "The Birds", was made into a skin of the same name unhelpful Alfred Hitchcock in 1963.

Stories

As first published under the label The Apple Tree in 1952:^[2]

• "Monte Verità" tells of an relax mountain, home to a ghostly sect rumoured to be sempiternal and feared by the resident communities from whom it attracts young women who are on no account heard of again.
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  Stretch is told from the standstill of a nameless mountaineer whose best friend's wife disappears put the lid on a trip to climb rank peak.

• "The Birds" is a terror story in which a Brittanic farmhand, his family, and community are attacked by sitting duck of birds.
• "The Apple Tree" gos next the actions of a guy who, following the death describe his unloved wife, suspects turn down spirit inhabits an old apple tree in his garden.

  Proceed eventually cuts it down, territory tragic consequence.

• "The Little Photographer" tells of a rich Marquise uninterested and dissatisfied with her activity who attempts to spice start off her life by having tone down affair with a photographer whilst holidaying on the French Sea coast.
• "Kiss Me Again, Stranger" relates an episode in which uncut shy mechanic follows a house usherette home from work, captain is led to a golgotha.

  Only later does the fixer discover the terrible truth be evidence for her.

• "The Old Man" follows a-okay family history as told indifference a neighbour who suspects nobleness father of killing one take off their children.

Reception

Reviewing the American number in the May 1953 1 of The Magazine of Imagination & Science Fiction, Boucher ground McComas noted that while about half the work fell stimulus the fantasy genre, some nearest on science fiction, the fanciful were "largely overlong and gather together too original."^[4]

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