by Daphne Du Maurier · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582275126
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«Jamaica Inn» is the simplified edition of Daphne du Maurier's gothic novel, from the Longman Fiction collection, in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Mary Yellan arrives at Jamaica Inn after her mother's death to live with her aunt Patience and her husband, the brutal innkeeper Joss Merlyn. Despite her uncle's warnings, Mary decides to find out what happens at night at the inn and ends up caught in a web of smuggling and violence on Bodmin Moor, where no one seems trustworthy.
Text simplified by A. S. M. Ronaldson. The original novel was published in 1936; this edition, in 1996.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language (ELT/ESL), at upper-intermediate level.
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather George du Maurier was a writer and cartoonist. Du Maurier spent much of her life in Cornwall, where most of her works are set. As her fame increased, she became more reclusive.
