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- Published: 26 February 2018
- ISBN: 9780241339206
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 64
- RRP: $2.50
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The Breakthrough
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Fifty new books at £1 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.
- Published: 26 February 2018
- ISBN: 9780241339206
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 64
- RRP: $2.50
Categories:
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Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) was an English author and playwright. Her many successful novels include Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel and Rebecca, famously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940.