The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier while suffering from breast cancer

while suffering from breast cancer herself

deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas

with insights about how it is influenced by biochemistry

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

this book uses psychology

The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier while suffering from breast cancerHow 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