Rebecca
By Daphne Du Maurier; Jean Marsh (Read by)
(Macmillan Audio, Audio Cassette, Abridged, 9781559272612)
Publication Date: October 1993
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Paperback, Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Prebound, , Paperback
Categories: Classics
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"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
So begins the classic Rebecca, the unsurpassed modern masterpiece of romantic suspense -- one of the bestselling novels of all time! And so begins the remembrances of the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, as she recalls the events that led her to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast.
With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca -- dead, but never forgotten; her suite of rooms never touched; her clothes still ready to be worn; and her servant, the sinister Mrs. Danvers, still royal.
And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca -- and for the secrets of Manderley.
Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) was born in England and begun writing short stories and articles at the age of twenty-one. In 1969 she was made a Dame of the British Empire. Her other classic novels include The King's General, Jamaica Inn, The Flight of the Falcon, The House on the Strand, My Cousin Rachel and Frenchman's Creek. Jean Marsh is a British actress perhaps best known for co-creating the television series Upstairs, Downstairs and for portraying house parlor maid Rose Buck in the same series. She and Eileen Atkins also co-created the 1991 television series The House of Eliott. Marsh has had several film appearances, including Return to Oz, Willow, and The Heavy. Jean has also made many appearances on British and American television programs, including The Twilight Zone, Crooked House, Sensitive Skin, and UFO. Jean's audiobook credits include narrating Susan Hill's Mrs. De Winter, Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, and Roald Dahl's The Witches.
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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