Rebecca
By Daphne Du Maurier
(Harper Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780380730407, 416pp.)
Publication Date: November 1, 1997
Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc (September 2008), Compact Disc (January 2006), Compact Disc - Abridged (November 2004), (August 2002), Audio Cassette (February 2000), Audio Cassette (August 1999), Audio Cassette - Abridged (August 1997), Mass Market Paperback (November 1, 1994), Audio Cassette - Abridged (October 1993), Large Print (September 1993), Mass Market Paperback (September 1992), Prebound (April 1982), Hardcover (March 8, 1948)
Categories: Classics, Romance - Suspense
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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.
Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) has been called one of the great shapers of popular culture and the modern imagination. Among her more famous works are Jamaica Inn, The Scapegoat, Rebecca, and the short story "The Birds," all of which were subsequently made into films, the latter two directed by Alfred Hitchcock. She lived for many years in Cornwall, England, and in 1969 became Dame Daphne du Maurier.
Literature is full of reminders that houses have souls, a fact characters forget at their own peril. In some novels, the house is as much a force as any of the people in the story. When that happens, the human characters had better beware. More at NPR.org
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