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night i dreamt i went to Manderley again’— and maintained tautly, expertly, through- out, until the book’s sudden ending. Rebecca sold 45,000 copies in the first month alone and has never gone out of print. t has inspired a sequel (by i usan s Hill), a prequel ( sally Beauman) and numer - ous adaptations for stage and screen (most
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Daphne was overwhelmed by the scale and grandeur of Milton, a house that dated back to 1590, and it left a lifelong impression on her. When Daphne imagined the scene of the Manderley Ball, it was Milton she was thinking of. Years later, she said that the sight of the rather intimidating housekeeper at Milton, all dressed in black, sewed the ...
The White Dress. The most obvious and evocative symbol in Rebecca is Manderley, the manor house in which Maxim, and later the narrator, live. Manderley is a centuries-old estate, ruled by the de Winter family for generations. At the most basic symbolic level, Manderley is an embodiment of the past: a huge, sprawling place where tradition and ...
May 12, 2020 · Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Working as a lady’s companion, the orphaned heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to his brooding estate ...
Rebecca (Chap. 1) Lyrics. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to ...
Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley* again. It seemed to me that I was passing through the iron gates that led to the driveway. The drive was just a narrow track now, its stony surface covered with grass and weeds. Sometimes, when I thought I had lost it, it would appear again, beneath a fallen tree or beyond a muddy 5
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Apr 20, 2012 · Rebecca: Extract. An extract from Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca for World Book Night. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive ...
