This special edition of Rebecca includes excerpts from Daphne du Maurier's The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories, an essay on the real Manderley, du Maurier's original epilogue to the book, and more. Rebecca, Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier, published in 1938. 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. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second 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. 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. 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. With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. There are two sunken ships, a murder, a fire, a costume party and multiple complex betrayals, and yet. "Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again." It’s a melodrama, and by no means short on bangs and crashes. Now a Netflix film starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas
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