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The Glass-Blowers is a 1963 novel by Daphne du Maurier. The novel tells the story of a French family of glassblowers, the Bussons, charting their journey before, during and after the French Revolution.
In The Glass-Blowers, Daphne du Maurier explores her French family background through historical fiction, much as she did for another branch of her family in Mary Anne. In this novel, the stormy backdrop is the French Revolution.
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Faithful to her word, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. The world of the glass-blowers...
- Michelle de Kretser
- Daphne Du Maurier
- Little, Brown Book Group, 2012
17 de dic. de 2013 · The Glass-Blowers. Daphne du Maurier. Little, Brown, Dec 17, 2013 - Fiction - 384 pages. A "consistently entertaining" saga of beauty, war, and family set during the French Revolution, from the...
1 de may. de 2003 · But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution against which, the family struggles to survive. The Glass Blowers is a remarkable achievement - an imaginative and exciting reworking of du Maurier's own family history.
The author's ancestor Robert Busson du Maurier, who trained in the Busson family glass business, fled to London at the start of the French Revolution. This novel is based on letters written by his sister, Madame Sophie Duval.
1 de jun. de 2004 · Faithful to her word, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language - and its own rules.
- Daphne Du Maurier
