Rule Britannia (First U.S. Edition)

Daphne du Maurier

ISBN 10: 0385020384 / ISBN 13: 9780385020381

Published by Doubleday, Garden City, 1973

About this Item

First U.S. edition. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($6.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Light offsetting to front and back matter. Slight spine slant. Very light foxing to top edge. Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1114

Bibliographic Details

Title: Rule Britannia (First U.S. Edition)

Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City

Publication Date: 1973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Emma, who lives in Cornwall with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, wakes one morning to find that the world has apparently gone mad: no post, no telephone, no radio, a warship in the bay and American soldiers advancing across the field towards the house. The time is a few years in the future. England has withdrawn from the Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy, has decided that salvation lies in a union - political, military and economic - with the United States. Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership; but to some people it soon begins to look like a takeover bid. Daphne du Maurier is concerned not only with what would happen to this country under what is virtually occupation, but also with the effect on human relationships. In Emma, looking at it all with clear young eyes, Daphne du Maurier has drawn one of her most enchanting heroines; and this engrossing book shows once again what a versatile and perceptive writer she is.

From the Publisher:

Dame Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) wrote more than twenty-five acclaimed novels, short stories, and plays, including Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, Jamaica Inn, and The House on the Strand. She was also a passionate and skillful chronicler of her own remarkable, famously artistic family. Now, this is one of three of her fine novels that have been reissued in the distinguished Virago Modern Classics series.