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Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

1938105 pagesabout 2 hours
1938
first published
  • 1971Avon · 380 pages · ENGISBN 9780380778553
  • 1971Avon · 380 pages · ENGISBN 9780380486038
  • 1992ARROW · 400 pages · ENGISBN 9780099866008
  • 1994Reader's Digest Association · 376 pages · ENGISBN 9780895776273
  • 1999PENGUIN LONGMAN PUBL · 105 pages · ENGISBN 9780582419377
  • 1991Chivers Audio Books · ENGISBN 9781855490277
  • 1999Tandem Library · 380 pages · ENGISBN 9780808514527
  • 2001Harper Paperbacks · 416 pages · ENGISBN 9780380730407

With these words, the reader is ushered into 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. 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. 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. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. 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.

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