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Knigi angliyskoy pisatel'nicy Dafny Dyumor'e (1907–1989) stali klassikoy literatury XX veka. Master tonkogo psihologicheskogo portreta i virtuoz intrigi, Dyumor'e, kak nikto drugoy, umeet derzhat' chitatelya v napryazhenii. Nedarom odnim iz pochitateley ee talanta byl kinorezhisser Al'fred Hichkok, snyavshiy po ee proizvedeniyam znamenitye kinotrillery: «Rebekka», «Pticy», «Traktir 'YAmayka'»... Roman «V pogone za schast'em, ili Meri-Enn», vyshedshiy mezhdu znamenitymi knigami «Moya kuzina Reychel» i «Kozel otpushcheniya», kogda pisatel'nica nahodilas' na vershine svoey formy, byl priznan odnoy iz luchshih knig Dafny Dyumor'e. Pogruzhayas' v atmosferu Anglii XIX stoletiya, avtor vossozdaet obraz svoey ekstravagantnoy praprababushki i rasskazyvaet istoriyu ee poistine udivitel'noy zhizni, polnoy vzletov i padeniy. U Meri-Enn byla neveroyatnaya sud'ba i neveroyatnyy harakter, v kotorom sochetalis' raschetlivost' i bezrassudnost', doverchivost' i lukavstvo, yazvitel'nost' i dobrodushie, besstrashie i rasputnost'... Ey udalos' vybrat'sya iz ubogih londonskih trushchob, stav izvestnoy kurtizankoy i lyubovnicey gercoga Yorkskogo, brata korolya Georga III, dostich' vysot vlasti, a zatem, vvyazavshis' v gromkiy korrupcionnyy skandal i politicheskie intrigi, ona postavila na kartu svoe budushchee i svoyu zhizn'…