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'The iron of the bridge felt hot under my hand. The sun had been upon it all day. Gripping hard with my hands I lifted myself on to the bar and gazed down steadily on the water passing under...I thought of places I would never see, and women I should never love. A white sea breaking on a beach, the slow rustle of a shivering tree, the hot scent of grass...I breathed deeply and I felt as though the waiting water rose up in front of me and would not let me go' As far as his father, an accomplished poet, is concerned, Richard will never amount to anything, and so he decides to take his fate into his own hands. But at the last moment, he is saved by Jake, who appeals to Richard not to waste his life. Together they set out for adventure, jumping aboard the first ship they see and working their passage to Norway and around Europe, eventually to bohemian Paris, where Richard meets Hesta, a captivating music student...

Anglická spisovatelka a dramatička Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) žila dlouhá léta na pobřeží Cornwallu, na jehož rozeklané skalnaté pobřeží také zasadila děje mnoha svých děl. Nejznámějšími z nich jsou romány Hospoda Jamajka a Mrtvá a živá, které byly úspěšně zfilmovány. Neméně poutavá jsou její historická vyprávění nebo klasické horory. Šest hrůzostrašných příběhů plných napětí, ochromujícího strachu a nečekaného rozuzlení je považováno za vrchol tohoto žánru. Dvojnásobně to platí o Ptácích, proslavených jako předloha fascinujícího filmu Alfreda Hitchcocka. Nápad na tuto novelu vznikl při autorčiných každodenních procházkách podél cornwallských útesů. Když pozorovala řvoucí a ječící racky vrhající se na červy a na hmyz, napadlo ji: "A co když jim jednou nebudou červi stačit?"

Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champernoune, he witnesses intrigue, adultery and murder. As his time travelling increases, Dick resents more and more the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before ...

When her mother dies, Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt and uncle at Jamaica Inn. Strange things happen there at night, and Mary slowly discovers that she and her aunt are in terrible danger. Can she save herself and her aunt before it is too late?

A true classic of suspense in a beautiful new package for a whole new generation of readers.

V tomto slavném goticko - romantickém vyprávění nás slavná autorka zavede do středověkého Cornwallu. V příběhu plném napětí a romantiky, který spojuje fantastické a historické motivy, nechává hlavního hrdinu, aby se pomocí drogy přenesl ze současnosti do let dávno minulých, kde prožije život plný napětí a vášní.

Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champernoune, he witnesses intrigue, adultery and murder. As his time travelling increases, Dick resents more and more the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before ...

'The iron of the bridge felt hot under my hand. The sun had been upon it all day. Gripping hard with my hands I lifted myself on to the bar and gazed down steadily on the water passing under...I thought of places I would never see, and women I should never love. A white sea breaking on a beach, the slow rustle of a shivering tree, the hot scent of grass...I breathed deeply and I felt as though the waiting water rose up in front of me and would not let me go' As far as his father, an accomplished poet, is concerned, Richard will never amount to anything, and so he decides to take his fate into his own hands. But at the last moment, he is saved by Jake, who appeals to Richard not to waste his life. Together they set out for adventure, jumping aboard the first ship they see and working their passage to Norway and around Europe, eventually to bohemian Paris, where Richard meets Hesta, a captivating music student...