The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier This collection of short stories

This collection of short stories takes us into familiar territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour & the many textures lying beneath ordinary life

deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas

this book uses psychology

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they are told they must spend one year together to qualify for initiation

The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier This collection of short storiesHow long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of Monte Verit promises immortality, but at a terrible