Rebecca pdf is a gothic tale by english creator dame daphne du maurier. Inspired partly by the deserted house menabilly, which du maurier later leased and repaired, manderley is a classic cornish estate. May 18, 2019 mention rebecca to any reader and the first line has immediate recall last night i dreamt i went to manderley again. What du maurier understood is that the heart of the romantic. Mention rebecca to any reader and the first line has immediate recall last night i dreamt i went to manderley again. Get your own copy of the movie on dvd on amazon affiliate link. Why daphne du mauriers rebecca is still popular 80 years on the. She was twentytwo years old and had already written a number of short stories, some of which had been published in a magazine called the bystander. Among her more famous works are the scapegoat, jamaica inn, rebecca, and the short story the birds, all of which were subsequently made. Popperfotogetty the careful reader will discern du maurier s preoccupation with gender and sexuality, which. What fascinating insight into the world of daphne du maurier. Growing up in the house that inspired rebecca telegraph.
Her grandfather was the brilliant artist and writer george du maurier and her father was gerald du maurier. Among her more famous works are the scapegoat, jamaica inn, rebecca, and the short story the birds, all of which were subsequently made into films, the latter three directed by alfred hitchcock. Maurier, daphne du and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Rebecca by daphne du maurier overview its no wonder that the woman who becomes the second mrs. In 1932, she married lieutenantgeneral sir frederick browning. Digital rights management drm the publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to install free software in order to unlock and read it. The novel has inspired three additional books approved by the du maurier estate. Manderley is not only a fictional place but a wellrounded character in daphne du maurier s rebecca. Du maurier holds up the gilded mirror in which manderley is reflected, but first she broke the glass manderley is a thing of grace and beauty, exquisite and faultless but it is haunted by the. Jan 01, 2020 rebecca by daphne du maurier abridged audiobook part 1 last night i dreamt i went to manderley again. Daphne du maurier cautioned that it was a sinister tale about.
Of course, daphne du maurier was an incredible author, so just the right narrator was needed for this novel. Daphne du maurier 19071989 has been called one of the great shapers of popular culture and the modern imagination. Daphne du maurier s first novel was the loving spirit. Du maurier herself was closer to the mark when she described the novel as a sinister tale about a woman who marries a widower. When i turned the last page of the book, i had so many feelings and immediately i began comparing it with my cousin rachel. Inchingly, daphne du mauriers difficult novel came together. Few writers have created more magical and mysterious places than jamaica inn and manderley, buildings invested with a rich character that gives them a memorable life of their own. The memorable first pages of rebecca describe an ordered garden gone native. Rebecca, gothic suspense novel by daphne du maurier, published in 1938. Its a rare thing to discover a new favorite novel, but i definitely did so with rebecca.
Seventyfive years after daphne du maurier published rebecca, her son tells christian. The novel begins in monte carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the. If daphne du maurier had written only rebecca, she would still be one of the great shapers of popular culture and the modern imagination. Daphne du maurier was born in london on may, 1907 and educated in paris. This special edition of rebecca includes excerpts from daphne du mauriers the rebecca notebook and other memories, an essay on the real manderley, du. Buy a cheap copy of rebecca book by daphne du maurier. Oct 22, 2017 rebecca by daphne du maurier, read by alex kingston. In 1931 her first novel, the loving spirit, was published. She is an animal, a devil, a snake, vicious, damnable. The author weaves her own story as a biographer into telling du mauriers life narrative.
And the memory of his dead wife rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding mrs danvers. Maxim wants to forget about rebecca, who was supposedly evil and manipulative, but because rebecca is so intimately tied to manderley which is to say, to his pasthes unable to do so. Rebecca by daphne du maurier, sally beauman waterstones. She began writing short stories of mystery and suspense for magazines in 1928, a collection of which appeared as the apple tree in 1952. But upon moving to manderley, her grooms baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that rebecca, his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding maxim as well. Rebecca by daphne du maurier, daphne du maurier, paperback. Dead some months, the most potent person at manderley is rebecca, kept alive by the demon who is mrs. Daphne du maurier has 260 books on goodreads with 1103580 ratings. Published on jan 1, 2020 rebecca by daphne du maurier abridged audiobook part 1 last night i dreamt i went to manderley again. At the most basic symbolic level, manderley is an embodiment of the past. N is jealous from the moment she sees rebeccas handwriting.
The above picture appears in daphne du maurier at home by. Daphne du maurier is one of the most overlooked writers of the twentieth century, says oxford universitys laura varnam. Psychologically astute and disturbingly romantic, rebecca was an immediate bestseller on publication in 1938 and has cast a sinister spell ever since. Mar 27, 2019 from the very first line of rebecca by daphne du maurier last night i dreamt i went to manderley again, the narrator makes it clear that manderley is not just a setting in the novel, it is something greater. I had already read my cousin rachel by the same author and just loved it. Daphne du mauriers most famous novel often finds itself bracketed as romance, which is rather like shelving anna karenina in the chicklit section. However, for most of the other characters in the novel, such as maxim, manderley and its memories arent so pleasurable. Daphne du maurier ist mittlerweie zu meiner lieblingsschriftstellerin geworden.
Dec 17, 20 rebecca ebook written by daphne du maurier. Last night i dreamt i went to manderley again so the second mrs. Buy rebecca by daphne du maurier from daunt books today. Daphne du mauriers most popular book is rebecca jamaica inn frenchmans creek m. Daphne du maurier always said her novel rebecca was a study in. Read online or download for free graded reader ebook and audiobook rebecca by daphne du maurier of advanced level you can download in epub, mobi, fb2, rtf, txt, mp3. It was rebecca who created manderley, turning the lovely old house into the. Rebecca was adapted by alfred hitchcock into a popular film 1940. With one the most famous opening lines in books, i dived into the most popular work of daphne du maurier rebecca. Best daphne du maurier books five books expert recommendations. Daphne du maurier s inspiration for manderley was a 16thcentury estate where she lived called menabilly. Rebecca is pretty dark and heady stuff a love story perhaps, but only in the twisted and haunted fashion that dracula and wuthering heights can be described as love stories. Daphne du maurier leased the house for a great number of years and once said.
Im glad i have a very long backlist to get through when it comes to daphne du maurier. About is a free web service that delivers books in pdf format to all the users without any restrictions. One of my alltime favorite books is daphne du maurier s rebecca. Daphne du maurier books list of books by author daphne. It was made by student the story by daphne du maurier, which begins as a typical ladies roman, gradually turns into a psychological detective.
Dame daphne du maurier lady browning 1907 1989, dbe 1969, fellow of the royal society of literature. The symbol of manderley in rebecca from litcharts the. Working as a ladys companion, the orphaned heroine of rebecca learns her place. Daphne du maurier s publisher, victor gollancz, announcing rebecca in 1938, called it an exquisite lovestory, which says more for his salesmanship than it does for his truthfulness. Only nine words nine words that set the stage perfectly for what was to follow. It concerns an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, only to discover that he and his household are haunted by the memory of his late first wife, the title character. Rebecca by maurier daphne abebooks passion for books.
Apr 26, 20 she had known of menabilly for many years and used it as the inspiration for manderley, the house in rebecca published in 1938. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read rebecca. Daphne du maurier, author of the famous novels, jamaica inn, frenchmans creek and rebecca, was inspired by her love of cornwall where she lived and wrote please see disclaimer manderley castle. Sep 27, 2019 download rebecca pdf by daphne du maurier. Rebeccas famous opening line, last night i dreamt i went to manderley again, sets the scene for a novel in which dreams become nightmares. Daphne du maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. Her first novel, the loving spirit, was published in 1931. Daphne du maurier s rebecca is crucial to the genre, for in it du maurier simplified and organized these six elements, refining the narrative, concentrating the mythic, and enriching the ambiguity of her tale. Manderley, a change comes over maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread. However, after listening to anna masseys performance of rebecca, i have decided she is now my favorite narrator. Widely considered a classic, it is a psychological thriller about a young woman who becomes obsessed with her husbands first wife.
What du maurier understood is that the heart of the romantic gothic is the struggle between two women, one. New fiction, nonfiction books and travel guides available from daunt books. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Daphne du maurier herself said it was about my feelings of jealousy re my husband and jan ricardo, ricardo being an exgirlfriend of brownings. Miss du maurier writes of her people with a lavish hand, and they come to life beneath her gestures.
Daphne du maurier at menabilly with her children in 1947. Joan fontaine and laurence olivier in alfred hitchcocks film of. A new adaptation of daphne du maurier s 1938 novel rebecca is in the works for netflix. Rebecca by daphne du maurier, read by alex kingston youtube. She is an animal, a devil, a snake, vicious, damnable, rotten through and through. Daphne du maurier s most famous novel often finds itself bracketed as romance, which is rather like shelving anna karenina in the chicklit section. As rebecca celebrates its eightieth anniversary and du maurier enjoys a critical renaissance, varnam explores the books which highlight this novelists sheer range and brilliancefrom biography and fiction to history and horror. Daphne du maurier has crafted a wonderfully spooky story with remarkably little action, but a great deal of atmosphere and a steadily mounting feeling of impending doom. Many daphne du maurier novels most people will have heard of like rebecca 1938 and jamaica inn 1936 are published before the first daphne du maurier book that youve chosen, the kings general 1946.
The manderley estate where rebecca is set was based on a house called menabilly, on the south coast of cornwall. In my youth i read several other du maurier classics and enjoyed them all. After a short courtship, our narrator marries maxim and they return to manderley together. And it still sells more than any of her other books. Rebecca will live for ever because du maurier touches a fearful nerve, buried deep in the unconscious kate saunders, the times a mesmerising novel which reveals more on each reading helen dunmore last night i dreamt i went to manderley again. Rebecca is an intensely erotic novel, but its eroticism is of a queasy kind. I finished the book days ago, but manderley and its inhabitants still haunt the back of my mind. Whisked from glamorous monte carlo to his brooding estate, manderley, on the cornish. Feb 27, 2018 daphne du maurier s most famous novel often finds itself bracketed as romance, which is rather like shelving anna karenina in the chicklit section. Jan 30, 2003 daphne du maurier 190789 was born in london, the daughter of the famous actormanager sir gerald du maurier and granddaughter of george du maurier, the author and artist. With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept cornish coast, as the second mrs. Reflections on rebecca by daphne du maurier andrew winkel. She wrote it in 1929, at ferryside, the du maurier familys holiday home at bodinnick in cornwall.
Rebecca is a 1938 gothic novel by english author dame daphne du maurier. Rebecca and me du mauriers 80yearold creation is as real to me as my bricksandmortar home. It makes me a little ashamed to admit it, but i do believe i love mena more than people. See all books authored by daphne du maurier, including rebecca, and my cousin rachel, and more on. The ravishing rebecca is never seen, and yet she is the main character. An extract from daphne du mauriers rebecca for world book night. In the du maurier family slang a sexually attractive person was a menace, and rebecca unites both the words meanings. Feb 23, 2018 she knew the title but not what would constitute the crash. When i turned the last page of the book, i had so many feelings and immediately i. Rebecca by daphne du maurier, read by alex kingston. Daphne was born into a creative and successful family. At manderley, maxims first wife rebecca, who died in a. I am reminded of how profoundly du maurier changed the way i felt about myself, how she engaged and excited me with her writing. Feb 09, 2012 daphne du maurier 190789 was born in london, the daughter of the famous actormanager sir gerald du maurier and granddaughter of george du maurier, the author and artist.
Daphne du mauriers rebecca is crucial to the genre, for in it du maurier simplified and organized these six elements, refining the narrative, concentrating the mythic, and enriching the ambiguity of her tale. It has the best opening line of the thousands of books i have read. Aug 27, 2019 with one of the most evocative first lines ever, daphne du mauriers fifth novel has everything a reader could ask for. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity. An influential british author, daphne du maurier was an institution within her own right, who came to be respected as a masterful storyteller with a keen eye for both structure and form, something which many have tried to replicate over the intervening years since her death to varying degrees of success. In books like rebecca, my cousin rachel, and jamaica inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday lifelove, grief, jealousyinto the stuff of nightmares. The most obvious and evocative symbol in rebecca is manderley, the manor house in which maxim, and later the narrator, live. Rebecca will live for ever because du maurier touches a fearful nerve, buried deep in the unconscious kate saunders the times from the opening sentence last night i dreamed i went to manderley again to the final and the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.