Without realising, they can all be connected with one common theme: Someone, at some point, dies in each of these lil books. Since they’re so tiny, I’ll be combining together 3 mini reviews for each post, this first one covering The Vigilante by John Steinbeck, The Breakthrough by Daphne du Maurier, and Four Russian Short Stories by Gazdanov and Others. Oops.īut having acquired a little collection, and with the likelihood of me buying more in the future, I thought I do a little review series for them. And so after eagerly anticipating these gems, I promptly bought 4 of them the day of their release. At £1 each, these tiny books seem to be a fab way of trying new authors or bumping up your Goodreads goal, or even – if you’re like me – giving yourself a tiny confidence boost as you still manage to finish a book within your busy schedule (even if it is only 50 pages long, but shh). 6.If you’ve followed me on any social media in the past month or so, you just *might* know how excited I’ve been about the new little Penguin Moderns. But it is not as camp as it ought to be, and duller than it sounds, apart from a bewigged Basil Rathbone as a creepy cad who lusts after Fontaine. But she looks fabulous in the sumptuous 17th-century gowns of an unhappily married English lady, in a very Californian-looking Cornwall, who runs off with a dashing French pirate (Mexican actor Arturo de Córdova).
Frenchman’s Creek (1944)ĭavid O Selznick loaned Joan Fontaine to Paramount for this lavish Technicolor adaptation of Du Maurier’s 1941 historical novel, directed by Mitchell Leisen, and by all accounts she was not happy about it. It was a troubled production (Guinness had to help out with the directing when Hamer’s alcoholism kicked in) and the story founders on too many fudged plot points – such as the implausibility of an Englishman passing for a native French speaker without the man’s wife or mistress immediately spotting the deception. Alec Guinness plays dual roles in Gore Vidal’s adaptation of Du Maurier’s 1957 novel, directed by Robert Hamer, in whose Kind Hearts and Coronets Guinness had played eight different characters. On holiday in France, a British teacher meets his exact double: a French aristocrat who tricks him into swapping lives.
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