Jamaica Inn / Daphne du Maurier ; with an introduction by Sarah Dunant.
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TextSeries: Virago modern classicsPublisher: London Virago, 2014Copyright date: ©1936Description: xi, 302 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780349005133 (paperback); 0349005133 (paperback)Subject(s): Romantic suspense fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Romantic suspense fiction | Families -- Fiction | Hotelkeepers -- Fiction | England -- Cornwall (County) | Cornwall (England : County) -- FictionGenre/Form: Romantic suspense fiction. | Classic fiction. | Classic fiction | Romantic suspense fiction. | Fiction. | Romantic suspense fiction. DDC classification: F/DUM LOC classification: PR6007 | .U53Summary: When her mother dies, Mary Yellan makes the grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her husband, Joss Merlyn. On arriving at the gloomy, threatening inn, with the coachman's warning echoing in her mind, she finds her aunt a cowering shadow, and her uncle a hulking, vicious brute. Even more alarming, Jamaica Inn has no guests and is never open to the public. Mary finds herself powerless to help her aunt, and is drawn unwillingly into the misdeeds of Joss and his accomplices.
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When her mother dies, Mary Yellan makes the grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her husband, Joss Merlyn. On arriving at the gloomy, threatening inn, with the coachman's warning echoing in her mind, she finds her aunt a cowering shadow, and her uncle a hulking, vicious brute. Even more alarming, Jamaica Inn has no guests and is never open to the public. Mary finds herself powerless to help her aunt, and is drawn unwillingly into the misdeeds of Joss and his accomplices.
Originally published London: Victor Gollancz, 1936.
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