Title: Rebecca
First published: 1938
Description: 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.
Subjects: Married women, Cornwall (England : County), Remarriage, Remarried people, Fiction, Drama, Suspense fiction, Open Library Staff Picks, English fiction, Wives, England Gothic fiction, Love stories, Smugglers, Gothic fiction, England, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, gothic, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Cornwall (england : county), fiction, Fiction, romance, suspense, Married people, fiction, English literature, Fiction, classics, Social life and customs, Folklore, Fiction in english, self esteem, love, man and woman love, psycology, Cornwall (County), Man-woman relationships, fiction, Country homes, collection:Name
Places: Cornwall (County), Cornwall (England : County), England, Great Britain, Corwall (COunty)
People: Laurence Olivier Olivier Baron (1907-1989), Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
Time periods: 20th century