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Title: The Limpet Title Record # 1404719
Author: Daphne du Maurier
Date: 1959-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: First published in Ladies' Home Journal, August 1959.
Synopsis: The middle-aged woman who narrates "The Limpet" says she worries that her weakness for wanting to help people will ruin her. But she "presents herself as a victim while manipulating all around her: parents, husband, lover, boss are all grist to the mill of her self-advancement." (Ruth Scurr, in the Telegraph)
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories 2011-11-22 Daphne du Maurier Harper 978-0-06-208034-9
$14.99?$: US dollar
210
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
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The Doll: The Lost Short Stories 2011-11-22 Daphne du Maurier William Morrow / HarperCollins 978-0-06-208036-3
$9.78?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories 2012-03-13 Daphne du Maurier Cemetery Dance Publications 978-1-58767-273-6
$25.00?$: US dollar
182
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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