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Rebecca: Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Name: Rebecca: Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Author: Daphne du Maurier
ISBN: 9780380730407

Daphne du Maurier · 2013 · 410 pages

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a 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. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim's first wife—the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.

This special edition of Rebecca includes excerpts from Daphne du Maurier's The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories, an essay on the real Manderley, du Maurier's original epilogue to the book, and more.

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Emma Watson
“"SP🎃🎃KY TREAT 📚 Sept/Oct @oursharedshelf members’ choice winner is Rebecca by @D_DuMaurier. It’s a gothic thriller with well-drawn female characters & some prophetic feminist themes. Don’t want to give anything more away 👻 it's a creepy classic! ENJ🍬Y! & yes, that is Yoda."”↗
Taylor Swift
“When you watch a film or you read a book and there's a character that you identify with, you most of the time identify with them because they're targeting something in you that feels that you've been there that's why we relate to characters and so when I was reading you know Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier and I was thinking um wow her husband just tolerates her. She's doing all these things and she's trying so hard and she's trying to impress him and he's just tolerating her the whole time. There was a part of me that was you know relating to that because at some point in my life I felt that way and so I ended up writing this song "tolerate it" that's all about sort of truth trying to love someone who's ambivalent.”
Glen Mazzara
“Every time I thought I had this book figured out, it twisted then twisted again. First, I was confused, then enchanted, then genuinely shocked, then completely trapped. Not my usual kind of read but super fun. Beautifully written and performed.”↗
Lena Dunham