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The blue lenses daphne du maurier6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() In this collection, as in The Apple Tree, Daphne du Maurier's peerless craftmanship, her eerie sense of the macabre, her gift for sheer story telling come to full fruition." (from Kirkus reviews) HUBIN, p.128. Several stories, poignant and evocative, deal with children three situations might well be defined as psychotic â " though as one reads, sympathy and understanding are wholly committed one seems symbolically more the story of a country than of its people. "A haunting series of stories, in most cases putting it up to the reader to interpret the final outcome â " in all cases using the device of the moment in life when emotion or reason reaches the point of tension beyond which something snaps. While du Maurier is not typically thought of as an author of weird fiction, I would argue that The Blue Lenses, in its depiction of a character who battles for sanity after. ![]() ![]() The dustjacket in price-clipped with light toning to the spine and a strip of toning across the upper front panel minor finger soil to panels minor nicks to the extremities Very Good+. Like many of the other stories in the book, The Blue Lenses reflects du Maurier’s struggle to maintain sanity in spite of a world crumbling around her. Mild offsetting inside covers from dustjacket Near Fine. Octavo (19cm) brown paper-covered boards titled in gilt on the spine dustjacket 287pp. ![]()
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