The Breakthrough

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Breakthrough
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Daphne Du Maurier
SeriesPenguin Modern
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:64
Dimensions(mm): Height 161,Width 111
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9780241339206
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 22 February 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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.