Rebecca
β Scribed by Daphne du Maurier
- Book ID
- 100345186
- Publisher
- ePubLibre
- Year
- 1938
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 265 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again β¦ The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
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"Rebecca is a work of immense intelligence and wit, elegantly written, thematically solid, suspenseful.." --Washington Post "Daphne du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings." --Stephen King Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . The novel begins
SUMMARY: Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .Working as a lady?s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by s