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Rebecca
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 1997-11-01
- Rating
- ★ 4.2 · 844 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
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An unnamed young woman becomes the second wife of wealthy widower Maxim de Winter and moves into his isolated Cornish estate, Manderley. Plagued by feelings of inadequacy compared to Maxim's deceased first wife, the hauntingly beautiful Rebecca, she is tormented by the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, who obsessively preserves Rebecca's former suite and belongings as a shrine. The narrator, who barely knew her husband when she married him, seeks to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Rebecca's life and death, walking in the shadow of her predecessor while phantoms of the dead past tighten around her.
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- Gothic: “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” source
- Unreliable Narrator: “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” source
- Angst: “With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor” source
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