First, Hitchcock moves the setting from England to California. There are many differences between Hitchcock’s adaptation and du Maurier’s original story. The novella was a relatively successful piece of short fiction and was read in several radio broadcasts before Hitchcock republished it in My Favorites in Suspense in 1959. It was written shortly after World War II, and the attacks, which it later turns out are happening all over England, are meant to represent the Nazi threat and the bombings of the UK. In it, a farmhand and his family, as well as the rest of his community, are attacked by seabirds arriving from the east. The story is set in Cornwall, in a seaside village on the southwest coast of England. The Birds is based on a novella of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, which was first published in 1952.
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