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Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier,

Sally Beauman (Afterword)

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Aug 26, 2015 Ginger rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-literature

I'm currently reading this for the world's smallest book club -- just me and a friend who lives in Kentucky together -- and so far it is the most gorgeous prose!

We're supposed to read it through the month of September, so I'm parceling out one chapter a day to make it last. ...more

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Feb 22, 2009 Meghan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own, favorites, rg-bookclub, classics, modern-classics, british, mystery, hardcover, movie, book-club

When I first encountered Rebecca it was two years ago and a bookclub had chosen it for the month. My friends all raved about it--same friends who love Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters. I dreaded reading this book, with fears of misty moors and silly, ridiculous, dreary heroines. But for some reason, this month, I was overcome with an urge to read a "classic" and figured since another bookclub had chosen this book, to give it a try.

Boy am I glad I did. It was a little slow going in the beginnin ...more

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Mar 30, 2010 Jennifer Zimny rated it liked it

If I truly could give this book an honest rating it would be 3.5 stars, rather than 3.

I bought Rebecca on a recommendation because I was told it had airs of Jane Eyre throughout it, and it was one of those books I have always meant to read. . . .one of those movies I have always meant to see. . . .one of those stories I knew had a mysterious twist to it that I didn't know! So I was excited to plow through this book to find out what exactly made up a book that was proclaimed to be "the book of t ...more

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Jul 17, 2007 Sarah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, 1001-must-read, recommend-to-friends, book-club-rg, book-club, page-to-screen

This gets four stars instead of five because I spent the first half of the book annoyed with the heroine. But I liked her for the second half of the book, and I loved du Maurier's writing style. I enjoyed the way the suspense built, and I liked the way the heroine's sense of self was reflected in her attitude toward Manderley. The book was beautifully written! ...more

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Jul 30, 2007 Letitia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I have to confess a particular fondness for this type of novel: A romantic intrigue set in the misty vales of an English estate...

Very well written, if not altogether surprising in the big revelation and the denouement. Du Marier builds the suspense flawlessly, and does not indulge in unnecessary exposition, as so many of this genre are wont to do.

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