Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier · first published 1938
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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, t
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"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again." -- Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
on “What makes a great opening line?” ↗I disagree. Many novels have great openings. "The Horse's Mouth" by Joyce Cary had me from the opening paragraph. I could say the same about "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier or "the Crow Road" by Iain Banks. We nicknamed "the Matrix Reloaded", the "Mattress Resprung", because for me it illustrated a major problem in films and books... The beginning…
on “Every novel is boring until it isn't” ↗I don’t know if this is considered a classic, but I recently read and thoroughly enjoyed Daphne Du Maurier’s “Rebecca”. I think I might have read it in a single sitting. I was lead to Rebecca after I found and read a discarded copy of Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History”. I wanted more and Googled “books like Rebecca”.…
on “Ask HN: What are you reading?” ↗…Eric Evans Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer by Sandi Metz Fiction: Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Ella Cheever Thayer - I saw this mentioned in a HN comment[0]. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530693 Edited to fix formatting and add a missing book.
on “Ask HN: What books are you reading?” ↗15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier