Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
List Price:
Our Price: $4.49
You Save: $10.46 (70%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $2.00 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Daphne du MaurierEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-11-01
ISBN: 0380730405
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Book Reviews of Rebecca
Book Review: About the time I began speed reading, the story got good
Summary: 3 Stars
I remind myself that this book was written 80 years ago, and that the frequent, mindless chit-chat among the characters about absolutely nothing was probably the norm for the day. If you can bear with this story until about the two-thirds mark, you'll treat yourself to a climactic finish.
I have the same problem with "Rebecca" that I had with "My Cousin Rachel." In many respects it is well written; however, we know virtually nothing about the characters. No background whatsoever (other than her parents are dead) about the narrator to explain why a 21-year-old behaves like an abused dog. No real background on Max such as why he married Rebecca in the first place. No background on why Rebecca was a twisted soul. Which leads us to our curiousity about Mrs. Danvers (we assume she was once married if she is addressed as Mrs.) because she is the one who raised Rebecca. No background on Jack Favell's dark side or how he and first cousin Rebecca became lovers.
Too many unanswered questions that could have added some wonderful complexity to the story. But hey, we know in excrutiating, repetitive detail all about Manderley's gardens.
Summary of Rebecca
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.
Classics Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Strong Female Characters
The Glass Castle: A Memoirby Jeannette Walls
Scribner; Published: 2006-01-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.15
Price in other shops:
Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur Golden
Knopf; Published: 1997-09-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.98
Emma (Penguin Classics)by Jane Austen
Penguin Classics; Published: 2003-05-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.17
Price in other shops:
Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)by Jane Austen
Vintage; Published: 2007-09-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.15
Price in other shops:
Little Women (Signet Classics)by Louisa May Alcott
Signet Classics; Published: 2004-04-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.68
Price in other shops:
The Thief Taker: A Novelby Janet Gleeson
Simon & Schuster; Published: 2006-08-22; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.21
Price in other shops:
Rebeccaby Daphne, Dame Du Maurier
Harper Paperbacks; Published: 1997-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.52
Price in other shops:
The Red Tent: A Novelby Anita Diamant
Picador; Published: 2007-08-21; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.89
Price in other shops:
The Crimson Petal and the Whiteby Michel Faber
Harvest Books; Published: 2003-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.26
Price in other shops:
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.)by Barbara Kingsolver
Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Published: 2005-05-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.97
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)by Charlotte Bront?
Penguin Classics; Published: 2006-08-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
The Scapegoatby Daphne du Maurier
University of Pennsylvania Press; Published: 2000-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.95
Price in other shops:
The House on the Strandby Daphne du Maurier
University of Pennsylvania Press; Published: 2000-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.90
Price in other shops:
RebeccaRelease date: 2003-02-25; DVD
Best price: $10.76
Price in other shops:
A Tree Grows in Brooklynby Betty Smith
Perennial Classics; Published: 1998-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.58
Price in other shops:
Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (Import All Regions)DVD
Best price: $8.50
Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics)by Emily Bront?
Bantam Classics; Published: 1983-11-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.75
Price in other shops:
Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)by Charlotte Bront?
Signet Classics; Published: 1997-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.98
Price in other shops:
My Cousin Rachelby Daphne du Maurier
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Published: 2006-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.95
Price in other shops:
Jamaica Innby Daphne Du Maurier
Avon; Published: 1995-06-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.76
Price in other shops: