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Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

Start date: May 1, 2018

Finish date: May 31, 2018

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Apr 06, 2015 Jaclyn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: theme-class-difference, country-england, setting-mansion, genre-classics, genre-suspense, theme-identity, theme-love, favorites, genre-gothic, 1900

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It’s been over a decade since I first read Rebecca. As an adult reading now I am more disturbed than I was as a teenager. In my memories I found the relationship between Maxim & the narrator to be more romantic. I suppose in the throes of ”the degradation of youth”, as du Maurier calls it, there is a skewed view of reality. You can see supreme romance in the byronic brooding of a character like Maxim, sweeping you away from a life of servitude to another kind of servitude all toge ...more

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Mar 02, 2019 Naga Sravika Bodapati rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I could start gushing over how wonderful and gripping a read Rebecca is and no wonder it is one of the best classics of all time. But reading the last 200 pages has been like walking a mine field. Put a step forward,the bomb doesn't go off and u think u r safe. Then there is the next step ahead and heart stats thumping,chest pounding, tongue goes dry and brain rushes ahead. All this while body craves for much needed weekend relaxation.
Stayed up all night and wrapped this mystery once and for al ...more

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Aug 31, 2011 Michelle Bacon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorite, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, du-maurier-daphne

By far the best book I have read in a long time. Book is full of suspense and intrigue. Dark secrets revealed and just compelling from cover to cover. I could not get enough of this story. Rebecca is dead and the narrator is only known as the second wife to Maxim de Winter. She arrives at Manderley to find she is haunted by Rebecca's presence in everywhere she turns. After a ship runs aground just outside Manderley's property, things are discovered about Rebecca's death and what truly happened. ...more

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Mar 29, 2013 Jessica rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I give it 3.5 stars. I enjoyed this mysterious little novel. It was slow to start. But about 1/3 to 1/2 way through it really picked up. Once you hit that point, it just doesn't let up.

It is a novel revolving around the idea of jealousy. What does it do to a person? How does one live with it? What kind of torture does one create for him or herself because of it? It is quite incredible what the author is able to do with this story and the main character.

We are never told the heroine/protagonist ...more

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