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The Breakthrough

Daphne du Maurier

First published 1971
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

According to a review, this story "concerns a small group of scientists in Norfolk attempting to capture a human soul, thereby ascertaining the criteria for human identity and whether or not there's life after death.... We have idiot savants, hypnotized dogs, spiritually bonded twin children, artificial intelligence, etc." First published in Ladies Home Journal, March 1966.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1971 Cover Not After Midnight and Other Stories Gollancz Collection 241
1971 Cover Don't Look Now Doubleday Collection 59
October 1971 Cover Don't Look Now Doubleday / BCE Collection 59
November 1972 Cover Don't Look Now Avon Collection 63
1974 Cover Don't Look Now and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 227
October 1976 Cover The Mind Beyond Penguin Books Anthology 13
1977 Cover My Favourite Story William Kimber Anthology 20
1981 Don't Look Now and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection
1981 Cover Three Complete Novels and Five Short Stories Avenel Books Omnibus 563
1985 Don't Look Now Dell Collection
2010 Cover Don't Look Now and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 231
December 2013 Cover Don't Look Now and Other Stories Little, Brown Collection
February 2018 Cover The Breakthrough Penguin Books Chapbook