The Birds and Other Stories

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The Birds and Other Stories
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The 1952 first UK edition under its original title, The Apple Tree
Author Daphne du Maurier
Original titleThe Apple Tree
Cover artist Val Biro
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Gollancz [1]
Publication date
1952 [1]
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typeHardback
Pages264 [1]
OCLC 1278358

The Birds and Other Stories is a collection of stories by the British author Daphne du Maurier. It was originally published by Gollancz in the United Kingdom in 1952 as The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories, [2] and was re-issued by Penguin in 1963 under the current title. [1] In the United States an expanded version was published in 1953 under the title Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Collection of Eight Stories, Long and Short by Doubleday [3] including two additional stories, "The Split Second" and "No Motive".

Contents

One of the stories, "The Birds", was made into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963.

Stories

As first published under the title The Apple Tree in 1952: [2]

Reception

Reviewing the American edition in the May 1953 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Boucher and McComas noted that while nearly half the work fell into the fantasy genre, some bordering on science fiction, the stories were "largely overlong and not too original." [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "British Library Item details". primocat.bl.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  2. 1 2 du Maurier, Daphne (1952). The Apple Tree. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.
  3. "Online Catalog". catalog.loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  4. "Recommended Reading," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , May 1953, p. 91
  5. "Kiss Me Again, Stranger (1953)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 26 January 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  6. "BBC Radio 4 Extra - The World of Daphne Du Maurier, 4. The Apple Tree". BBC. Retrieved 6 March 2024.