The Apple Tree: A collection of stories by Daphne Du Maurier

'The Apple Tree'  is a collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier published in 1952. It includes The Birds which was made into a film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963. The idea for this famous story came to her one day when she was walking across to Menabilly Barton farm from the house. She saw a farmer busily ploughing a field whilst above him the seagulls were diving and wheeling. She developed the idea about the birds becoming hostile and attacking him. In her story, the birds become hostile after a harsh winter with little food, first the seagulls, then birds of prey and finally even small birds, all turn against mankind. The nightmarish idea appealed to Hitchcock who turned it into the celebrated film. Daphne disliked the film and particularly disliked the translation of the setting from Cornwall, with its small fields and stone hedges, to small-town America. The collection also includes the following stories: Monte Verita, The Apple Tree, The Little Photographer, Kiss Me Again, Stranger and The Old Man. The anthology was later republished under the name 'The Birds and Other Stories'.

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