“The Path to the Heights, or Julius” is the third novel by Daphne Du Maurier, a famous English writer, author of the famous “The Birds”, “Rebecca”, “My Cousin Rachel”, etc. This is one of Du Maurier’s most controversial and mysterious books, in in which the writer, breaking the boundaries of the “generally accepted”, touches on the hidden sides of human desires and relationships. At the center of the story is Julius Levy, ambitious, endowed with irrepressible energy and intelligence. He was born into a poor family near Paris, then ended up in Algeria, where he successfully mastered the tricks of fraud. Deciding to conquer the world, he went to England... Calculating and cynical, Julius makes his way to the top, not caring about others, until he has a daughter, Gabrielle. Love for her becomes his strongest affection - and his greatest weakness. For the first time in Russian!