The Breakthrough
By (Author) Daphne Du Maurier
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
26th February 2018
22nd February 2018
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Short stories
823.914
Paperback
64
Width 111mm, Height 160mm, Spine 6mm
46g
Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself.
Daphne du Maurier was born in 1907 and died in 1989. Her many successful novels include Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel and Rebecca, famously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940.