Portail des médiathèques du réseau Paris-Saclay

How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew ... A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world.