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I read the 1942 edition. How might I recommend that one to friends?

Elizabeth Gaskins Hi Lindsey,
You may not be worried about this question anymore, but what you would do is look beneath the description of the book and click "all editi…moreHi Lindsey,
You may not be worried about this question anymore, but what you would do is look beneath the description of the book and click "all editions" Look through that list. If you see the one you want, click on it. Then look at the top right side and click the small letters that say "recommend it".

If you do not see the edition of the book you read, you may add it to the list of editions already on Goodreads and then recommend the edition you added.

Hope this helps!

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I want to read this book, but it seem like all its fans are women. I hope i don't sound sexist but is it a book written by a woman for women? I loved My Cousin Rachel by the way..:)

Susan Joy Paul I liked this book a lot more than My Cousin Rachel and even more than Rebecca. It's at least as good if not better than The Scapegoat and The House on…moreI liked this book a lot more than My Cousin Rachel and even more than Rebecca. It's at least as good if not better than The Scapegoat and The House on the Strand. A simpler story, but a powerful message. I would recommend it to my wild at heart female *and* male friends for sure!(less)

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Does this book contain sexual content?

Patrick Powell Lisa’s comment is broadly true, but not exactly true. No, there is no ‘sexual conent’ as we might understand it today - no holds barred in film with e…moreLisa’s comment is broadly true, but not exactly true. No, there is no ‘sexual conent’ as we might understand it today - no holds barred in film with extremely explicit films and in books no holds barred, and generally ridiculous, description.

But yes, there is sexual content, though du Maurier opts for - possibly in keeping with her times - a far more restrained and understated portrayal of ‘sex’. And like the dance of the seven veils, in which the seventh veil is never discarded, her approach is a far more attractive, satisfying and ‘sexy’ one.

Take this passage from the book when Dona plans with William how she can absent herself from Navron and spend time with the Pirate on an upcoming escapade. William is trying to persaude Done too take with her a box of anti-seasickness pils. Done has told him that she has a wager with the Pirate that she will not become seasick. The passage continues:

“,,,In fact, since we are discussing the matter I am taking the liberty, my lady, that you should take with you this little box of pills which I have found invaluable in the past, and which may be of help to you should some unhappy sensation come upon you.”

“How very kind of you, William. Give them to me and I shall put them in my bundle. I have a wager with your master that I shall not succumb. Do you think I shall win?”

“It depends upon what your ladyship is alluding to.”

“That I shall not succumb to the motion of the ship, of course. What do you think I meant?”

“Forgive me, my lady, My mind had for a moment strayed to other things. Yes, I think you will win that wager.”

“It is the only wager we have, William.”

“Indeed, my lady,’

“You seem doubtful.”

“When two people make a voyage, my lady, and one of them a man like my master, and the other a woman like my mistress, the situation strikes my as being pregnant with possibilities.”

“William, you are being very presumptuous,

“I am sorry my lady,”

“ And - French in your ideas,”

“You must blame my mother, my lady.”

“You are forgetting that I have been married to Sir Harry for six years, and am the mother of two children, and that next month I shall be thirty.”

“On the conrary, my lady, it is these three things that I was most remembering.”

No sexual content? There’s pleny, but gratifyingly it is not in your face sexual content but something far more entertaining, (less)

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