![]() 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. 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. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second 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. 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. ![]() 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. Daphne du Maurier’s gothic novel Rebecca cuts to the heart of this feeling as it tells the story of a young woman haunted by the talent and beauty of her husband’s first wife, Rebecca, who tragically died. With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. While working as the companion to a rich American woman on holiday in Monte Carlo, the unnamed narrator, a nave young woman in her early 20's, becomes acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, George Fortescue Maximilian 'Maxim' de Winter, a 42-year-old. "Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again." Rebecca is a thriller novel by English author Dame Daphne du Maurier. ![]() Now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas ![]()
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