The tavern of Yamaika. Dumoria D.

“The tavern of the Yamaika” is one of the most famous novels of the English writer Daphne Dumorye (1907–1989), her first truly great success, which was followed by the Rebecca triumph after two years. Today, the novel is considered the classic of the Gothic tradition in the literature of the 20th century, and the heroine Mary Yellan is compared with Jane Air. The events described in the novel unfold at the beginning of the 19th century, against the backdrop of the magical landscapes of Cornwall, his heather wasteland and coastal rocks. In full accordance with the laws of the genre, the orphaned Mary leaves his native lands and goes to his relatives - a childless aunt and her husband, Jossu Merlin, a rude and unconvinced owner of the Yamaika roadside tavern. The institution enjoys notorious fame, respectable people bypass it, and meanwhile it lives its strange and terrible life. Gradually, Mary begins to guess about something, terrible suspicions are swarming in her head, but to whom to tell about them? The mistake can do it dearly... In 1939, Alfred Hitchcock shot a movie with Charles Lawton and Morin O’Hara, the first of his adaptations of Dumorye books, and in 1983 the English television series with Jane Seymour was released in the title role.