- Title:
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Julius
- Written by:
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Daphne du Maurier
- Read by:
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Michael Maloney
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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10 hours 43 minutes
- Published:
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June 28 2017
- Available Date:
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June 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489396594
- Genres:
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Fiction; Classic Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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‘One of the last century’s most original literary talents.’
Daily Telegraph
She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense, and she was, too, a writer of fearless originality.'
The Guardian
A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb.
'His first instinct was to stretch out his hands to the sky. The white clouds seemed so near to him, surely they were easy to hold and to caress, strange-moving things belonging to the wide blue space of heaven ...'
Julius Levy grows up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape to Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease of swindling, the rewards of love affairs and the value of secrecy.
Before he's 20, he is in London, where his empire-building begins in earnest, and he becomes a rich and very ruthless man. Throughout his life, Julius is driven by a hunger for power, his one weakness his daughter, Gabriel ...