| Titre : |
Jamaica Inn |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Daphne Du Maurier, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Harmondsworth - Middlesex - Royaume-Uni [Royaume-Uni] : Penguin Books |
| Année de publication : |
1962 |
| Collection : |
Penguin books num. 1717 |
| Importance : |
267 p. |
| Format : |
18 cm |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Contrabandiers -- Angleterre -- Cornwall (région) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Cornwall (région du Royaume-Uni) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Écrivains anglais -- 20e siècle ; Fiction à suspense ; Histoires d'amour ; Littérature anglaise -- 20e siècle ; Mystère -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Roman anglais -- 20e siècle
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| Index. décimale : |
F Fiction |
| Résumé : |
After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. There she finds Patience a changed woman, downtrodden by her violent husband Joss Merlyn. Mary discovers that the inn is a front for a lawless gang of criminals, and is unwillingly dragged into their dangerous world of smuggling and murder. Despite herself, she becomes powerfully attracted to a man she dares not trust - Joss Merlyn's brother. Before long she will be forced to cross her own moral line to save herself |
Jamaica Inn [texte imprimé] / Daphne Du Maurier, Auteur . - Harmondsworth - Middlesex - Royaume-Uni (Royaume-Uni) : Penguin Books, 1962 . - 267 p. ; 18 cm. - ( Penguin books; 1717) . Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Contrabandiers -- Angleterre -- Cornwall (région) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Cornwall (région du Royaume-Uni) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Écrivains anglais -- 20e siècle ; Fiction à suspense ; Histoires d'amour ; Littérature anglaise -- 20e siècle ; Mystère -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Roman anglais -- 20e siècle
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| Index. décimale : |
F Fiction |
| Résumé : |
After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. There she finds Patience a changed woman, downtrodden by her violent husband Joss Merlyn. Mary discovers that the inn is a front for a lawless gang of criminals, and is unwillingly dragged into their dangerous world of smuggling and murder. Despite herself, she becomes powerfully attracted to a man she dares not trust - Joss Merlyn's brother. Before long she will be forced to cross her own moral line to save herself |
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