Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
The unnamed narrator, a naïve young woman in her early 20s, becomes acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, Maximilian (Maxim) de Winter, a widower aged 42. After a fortnight of courtship, she agrees to marry him and, after the wedding and honeymoon, accompanies him to his mansion in Cornwall, the beautiful West Country estate Manderley.
The second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she started a new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. In every corner and room of the isolated gray stone mansion were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten.
An eerie past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house’s current occupants.
A ghostly aura silhouettes her heart, as the second Mrs. de Winter walks in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor. She lives cautiously, yet compelled to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim’s first wife; the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.
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“And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea”
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Have you read Rebecca, or any other such hauntingly mysterious books?
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Ah! Perhaps it is time to read the famed Rebecca! I consider The Mystery of Edwin Drood to be the greatest of all literary mysteries… one that is never to be solved or resolved.
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Hmm now I want to read it 😀
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It helps to know, up front, that it does not end. This is the novel that Dickens was writing at the time of his death. He left no notes and discussed it with no one. It is worth reading but it will haunt you.
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Reblogged this on Janet’s thread.
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Love Rebecca! One of my favorite books.
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It’s a great story 🙂
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I have read and enjoyed Rebecca
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Rebecca is one of the all time greats!
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This is one of those great mysteries you can read several times–even though you’ve learned the ending already 😉
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I agree 🙂
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I think it’s time to re-read this one! Great book!
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Love this book, Love Daphne Du Maurier enough said 🙂
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She is a great story teller 🙂
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Loved, loved, loved this book! If you like books about old, mysterious mansions, I just read Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase. I highly recommend it.
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What a great name, my interest is peaked. Thank you for the suggestion 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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One of my most favourites. Stayed up till 4am to read it! “I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
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Love it! 🙂
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I loved Rebecca! So nice to see an old classic on your blog!
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I haven’t but the opening line is famous. I think it’s in my father’s library. I kept his books “separate”. I know it was there, my parents liked Du Maurier a lot (as han Suyin and many others of that time). I will have a look. Thanks for reminding me.
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I love her books–none has disappointed. Rebecca is a true thriller. I even enjoyed the movie and PBS versions. As much as I loved Rebecca, the King’s General is my all-time favorite. I’m still gasping, still in love with that rouge, Richard Grenville.
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One of the most memorable of opening lines…and paragraphs. If you like old movies, there’s an excellent “Rebecca” with Sir Laurence Olivier as Maxim. Won Best Picture Oscar in 1940, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Also 10 other Oscar nominations.
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I haven’t seen it, thank you for the suggestion 🙂
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You’re quite welcome.
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