Rebecca (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Daphne Du Maurier
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Gothic fiction, Suspense
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Memory, Class conflict, Love or romance, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Europe or Europeans, Marriage, Betrayal, 1930’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, England or English people, Blackmail, Adultery, Remarriage, Servants, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Orphans or orphanages, Fire, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: Cornwall, England
Told in the first person, this novel reveals the powerful psychological pressures on a very young, inexperienced woman who lives in the shadow of her husband’s dead first wife, the brilliant and sophisticated Rebecca.
When the young woman first meets Maxim de Winter in Monte Carlo, she is working as a paid companion to an obnoxious, loud, and vulgar American socialite. Almost without being aware of it, the young woman drifts into a romance with de Winter, marries him, and returns with him to his sumptuous estate, Manderley, on the Cornish coast.
Once at Manderley, the...
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