The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verita' promises immortality, but at a terrible price a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject's life a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery and a jealous father finds a remedy when three's a crowd. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world. In the story The Birds, the author Daphne Du Maurier creates birds that are evil, violent, ferocious, and savage creatures that are apparently hungry for. ' A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. She lived most of her life in Cornwall, apart from her husband, who lived in London after the war. Du Maurier was a private and quiet person. How 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. Rebecca and The Birds, which was published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree, are among the eight of her works that have been adapted into films. Following the film adaptation by Hitchcock in 1963, the collection was republished under as The Birds and Other Stories. Daphne Du Maurier's short story was first published in the collection The Apple Tree (1952).
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