Rebecca’s melancholic opening line establishes the setting, locale, and atmosphere of the gothic classic, which was published in 1938 and has never been out of print. In The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories, her last work that was published in 1981, du Maurier recalled Rebecca’s gestation: “Seeds began to drop. A whirlwind courtship ensues which ends in a most unromantic …
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