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Zoran Živković, an excellent connoisseur of science fiction, made a selection of Clarke's best stories with the motif of first contact and wrote an extensive text in which he interprets them in detail.
In the early hours of the morning, the corpse of a young girl whom no one knows will be found in the library of the manor house. Where did she come from? How did she get to the library? And who, anyway, in that house could want her dead? The facts, appare
The novel "Rebecca" (1938), a Gothic classic, follows a nameless young woman, the poor companion of a rich American woman, who falls in love with the charming widower Maxim de Winter, owner of the luxurious Manderley estate in Cornwall, in Monte Carlo.
The novel is a dark tale of destructive ambition, class discrimination, domestic violence and Victorian repression, inspired by Dickens' style but with Cronin's social realism. A 1942 film adaptation starring Robert Newton.
Hungry Hill (1943) is a saga of five generations of the Anglo-Irish Brodrick family, owners of Clonmere Castle in Ireland. Du Maurier, a master of Gothic prose, weaves together folklore, curses, and social change, showing how greed destroys heirs.
A classic of female British thriller, Mask of Shame (1994), by the author of the popular novel The Sculptor, is a dark psychological thriller about manipulation, family secrets and the limits of human cruelty.