Book of the Month–September 2017
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca begins with the famous opening line: Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. In the novel, the unnamed narrator tells the story of her life and the time she lived on the Manderley estate. The narrator worked as a young woman as a paid companion to a wealthy American woman travelling around Europe. While in Monte Carlo, the women meet Maxim de Winter, a widower whose wife Rebecca had died in a recent boating accident. After a whirlwind courtship the narrator agrees to become the second Mrs. de Winter and after the wedding and honeymoon, moves to de Winter’s Cornwall estate, Manderley. Once she arrives at her new home, the new Mrs. de Winter is intimidated by housekeeper Mrs Danvers. Devoted to Rebecca, Mrs Danvers belittles and undermines the new arrival and soon the narrator begins to question whether she belongs in the house. She also worries that her husband might be regretting their marriage and begins to suspect that she does not know the truth about the first Mrs. de Winter’s death.
Available in these formats:
Audiobook (read by Anna Massey)
Audiobook (read by Emma Fielding)
Talking Book (Restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
The library also has 2 film versions of the book available:
Rebecca (1940 feature film), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier
Rebecca (1997, television miniseries ), starring Charles Dance and Diana Rigg
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