![]() ![]() Daphne du Maurier's name is a certificate for a substantial sale the ultimate result may well be below her peak. Violence, tragedy, high drama- all are here, but one never loses the awareness that the novelist is, perhaps, hampered by the historian and biographer in the telling. ![]() The plot thread is thin, despite its multiple factors and characters but the setting provides as lively and vivid and original a picture of rural France under the Terror, as this reader has chanced to encounter. And she tells the story as a principal in the drama, Sophie Duval, tells the story of Robert, her errant brother, for the English-born nephew, his son. She dedicates her book ""To my forebears"" the master glass-blowers of La Brulonnerie, Cherigny, La Pierre and the Chesne-Bidault"". Now comes another panel in the family history, done in fictional form, The Glass Blower, a story that reaches back to France of the Revolution and England as seen through the experiences of one du Maurier ancestor, a refugee, and pretty much of a blot on the scutcheon, but a colorful figure in spite of his questionable ethical principles. The Glass-Blowers by Daphne Du Maurier Author (s): Vicki J Kondelik MaThe Glass-Blowers is a historical novel by Daphne Du Maurier, best known as the author of Rebecca, about a family of glass-blowers during the French Revolution. ![]() ![]() In 1954 Daphne du Maurier built a novel entitled Mary Anne around her great-great-grandmother earlier she had written two unforgettable biographies, one of her father Gerald, the other titled simply The du Mauriers. ![]()
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