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Summary: The best love story I have ever read
Review: The best love story ever written, Rebecca, has arrested the readers attention by its perfect narrative skills and surprising suspense. The romantic elements coupled with the `shadowy' appearence of the dead heroine, whose name is the title of the novel, stirrs the marrow in one's bones.
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Summary: A girl loves a man with a past, but reveals his secrets
Review: A girl,Rebecca meets a men when she is in a hotel.They fall in love and marry.Then they go to his house,a beautiful house.But all the time she has the feeling he has secrets for her,things that have happened in his past.Rebecca finds out these secrets,and after fights,love and passion they can open up to eachother and live happily ever after,thoough their house has been set oon fire by their housekeeper.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: The book Rebecca is sensational. It is very suspensful; and full of excitement. Wonderful novel. It ingeniously mixes drama with suspense with romance, and murder! Definately a classic. Enables you to form own opinion on end. Read it!
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Summary: Old-fashioned, but endearing
Review: Rebecca has to be one of the greatest novels out of the thirties. Daphne du Murier tries to incorperate the old-fashionedness of generations past while giving the narrator a "modern thirties woman" outlook. Characters and moods are very well constructed and although Du Murier uses the same words over and over to describe them, she makes them seems realistic. Another very wonderful quality of the novel is that the author has captured emotions so well- the feeling of fear right before awakening from sleep, the difficulty of trying to hide emotions from someone who is very well-known to the character. These are so masterfully done. I love this novel, and though some would argue at the periodness of it, the qualities brought out from the narrator are captured with the style and grace that only Du Murier can seem to do.
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Summary: Forever searching for Manderley ...
Review: I concur with everyone else's high praise of "Rebecca." For another book in the same vein, I suggest that du Maurier fans try Anya Seton's "Dragonwyck" (if you're lucky enough to find a copy!).
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Summary: The best passion mystery of all time.
Review: The story started out like a flash back. The author was decribing Manderley, a happy valley. The story start when Mr. De Winter met this young girl and fell in love with her. To me the story move in a slow pace in the beginning. I was a little lost, but when the truth came out in the middle of the story, it just blow me away. After knowing that Mr. De Winter killed Recebba, I couldn't stop reading the book. I wanted to know the ending to the story. The ending had a great twist. I was shocked and pleased with the ending. I love the book and I think everyone should try reading it.
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Summary: Don't (Repeat: DO NOT!) read the last page first!!!
Review: Haunting and beautifully crafted, Rebecca is a book you will return to again and again. Perhaps the last true example of the "Gothic" tradition, this book was the basis for the beloved Hitchcock film. Memorable as the film is, the novel is deeper, richer, and more rewarding with each reading. Not to miss by anyone who loves a good story, gripping characters, mystery, and the masterful usage of the English language.
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Summary: Stunningly well-written, compellingly well-concieved
Review: I was hooked from the first sentence. Literally. I flipped it open to see what it was all about, and from then on I was lost, empathizing with the insecure young girl who tells the story. I lived with her in what seemed a fairytale dream that turned into a rending nightmare. I shivered at things that normally wouldn't scare me, but, with strained nerves, became hair-raising.
Ms. du Maurier has written one of the best Gothic novels of all time. Every sentence builds to a sudden ending that makes you think that there must be more. But you have to supply it yourself.
I, too, dreamed of Manderly last night...
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Summary: The Last of the Gothics
Review: Often marketed for teenaged girls, Rebecca is actually the last of the great novels in the Gothic tradition. The first of the great Gothic bestsellers, Jane Eyre, serves as template and inspiration for Du Maurier's haunting story of the triumphant power of evil. There is the ancient, enormous manor house, Manderly (Thornfield), the romantic, father-lover Byronic hero, Max DeWinter (Edward Rochester), the frightening servant with a BIG secret, Mrs. Danvers (Grace Poole), a lonely, orphaned heroine who sees herself as clumsy and homely, rather than innocent and lovely, the Narrator (Jane Eyre), the bildungsroman of the heroine growing into wisdom and loss of innocence, the great house as symbol of corruption hidden by surface beauty, the colossal and hidden past mistake made by the Hero, devastating fires, and love so passionate and enduring it overcomes unthinkable misfortune. Du Maurier was haunted by Bronte, it's clear, just as her unnamed character is haunted by Rebecca. Rebecca, whose name is everywhere, and the Narrator, whose name is nowhere in the novel. The skill to make such an odd twist of nomenclature is only one that Du Maurier practices in the tale of secrets, horror, love, and redemption. Or is it redemption? She leaves the question open just enough to bring you back to reading Rebecca time and time again, just as the name of Rebecca's sailboat, "Je reviens," predicted. (Je reviens: "I come back")
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Summary: A thriller in disguise!
Review: Daphne Du Maurier spins the tale of a nameless maiden who marries Maxim De Winter, the wealthy owner of Manderly. When everything seems like a fairy tale, a twist of murder and mystery are all that it needs for a thrilling addition
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