If I had one criticism, it might be a slightly slow start, but with the awesome payoff, that is hardly worth mentioning.I went in completely 100% blind!!! Climax: Dr. Baker reveals that Rebecca had uterine cancer. How foolish I was to wait. It builds and builds so painfully perfect, I was sure my chest would explode before I got to the end. The tension in it is almost physical, smothering at times. E non lo regge. She accepts, and he marries her and takes her back to his ancestral estate of Manderley. Favell, Maxim, and the heroine accompany Julyan to London; the heroine is certain that Baker will reveal that Rebecca was pregnant, thus revealing Maxim's vengeful motive for murder. “If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. Beatrice, Maxim's talkative sister, knows things but will not tell them to the second Mrs. de Winter, Jack Favell, Rebecca's first cousin comes to the mansion without her knowledge, there is something she doesn't like, about him, a drunkard, daring playboy, and incessant flirt, with a mysterious connection to Rebecca, Maxim hates him ( why?)
Antagonist: Mrs. Danvers / Rebecca de Winter / Jack Favell (though there’s also a convincing argument that Maxim de Winter is the novel’s true antagonist) Point of View: First person. [ Maxim reveals that his first wife didn’t drown.
A perpetual favorite and considered a classic of American children’s literature, the book also captures a period in American history that is long past, making it a charming bit of time travel for modern readers. It's officially been two months since I actually finished a book, and it's been longer than that since I reviewed one. Since my ill-informed, younger self was not put off by cloyingly sentimental narrators who make the experience of If I found myself in Interstellar's tesseract by a quirk of fate, then chances are I might leave a coded message for my younger self to read Rebecca asap.
She feels that she can never compare favorably to Rebecca, who was beautiful, talented, and brilliant--or so everyone says--and soon she feels that Maxim is still in love with his dead wife.Manderley traditionally hosts a costume ball each year, and it is soon time for the gala to take place. The heroine, who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter, traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. is an In 1944 in the United States, du Maurier, her U.S. publishers Du Maurier delivered the manuscript to her publisher, Victor Gollancz, in April 1938. Now a ghost, she haunts the mansion, and her presence torments the heroine after her marriage to Maxim.
I've found out that Alfred Hitchcock made a movie of this book and I can't think of a better pairing, this story was made for the Hitchcock touch. Please stand by, while we are checking your browser...Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property.If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware.If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. THE windowsill on a rainy day with your pet book. In her flashback, the heroine is working as the young traveling companion to a wealthy American named Mrs. Van Hopper. The novel is narrated by an unnamed woman recalling past events in her life.
Blind trust was all I needed, from trusted friends, but it took me forever to make this book a priority. When the doctor is found, he reveals that Rebecca had cancer and would have died within a few months. This book was great! It’s almost laughable. But because of the exquisite prose you get to know her so intimately, I was completely absorbed in her thoughts, what she sees and feels. Great characters, great writing... it remains one of my all time favourites and I seem to appreciate something new every time I return to it.Oh my... how I fell in love with this classic novel, I adored the main protagonist and felt she was fully developed as a character. Furthermore, due to the malformation of her uterus, she could never have been pregnant. The narrator is soon convinced that Maxim regrets his impetuous decision to marry her and is still deeply in love with the seemingly perfect Rebecca. Rebecca era sublime, mentre lei è semplice, ingenua. On receipt, the book was read in Gollancz's office, and her "editor, Norman Collins, reported simply: 'The new Daphne du Maurier contains everything that the public could want. A chill goes down your spine (but in a good way!) We’d love your help. Literally we don't know her name, despite being the main character, to underline the depersonalization of the new wife. This is it. Shortly after the ball, Mrs Danvers reveals her contempt for the narrator, believing she is trying to replace Rebecca, and reveals her deep, unhealthy obsession with the dead woman. Non a caso la nuova sposa non ha nome, nel senso che letteralmente non viene mai nominata col suo nome di battesimo nel romanzo, pur essendo il personaggio principale, a sottolinearne la spersonalizzazione. THE delicious, curl up next to the fire under a blanket with tea book. Rebecca was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock into a popular film (1940).
Maxim de Winter (Sir Laurence Olivier), still troubled by the death of his first wife Rebecca, falls in love with a shy ladies' companion. When it was published, about 75 years ago, assumptions about how women, especially married women, should behave were markedly different than they are today. The narrator has a drummer announce her entrance using the name of the lady in the portrait: Caroline de Winter. It is not without reason that the new bride has no name, in the sense that in the novel she is never mentioned with her name.
It's actually the story of the wealthy, dashing, and creepy widower, Maxim de Winter, and his fabulous country estate, Manderley. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis … .