4.2
Rebecca
"After the death of his beautiful wife, Rebecca, Maxim de Winter goes to Monte Carlo to recover. There he marries a quiet and ordinary young woman who is very different fron his first wife. Maxim takes her back to England to Manderley, his lovely country house. The new Mrs de Winter finds that at Manderley, Rebecca is still in everyones thoughts -- including Maxim's -- and she begins to feel that she will never be able to equal Rebecca as a wife or as a mistress of Manderley. Then one day a discovery is made -- and the young Mrs de Winter begins to understand why Rebecca is still so important to all those at Manderley"...Cover.
FictionClassicsJuvenile FictionMysteries & Detective Stories
RELEASED1993
PUBLISHERLongman
LENGTH104
LANGUAGEEN
Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, the second of three daughters of Muriel Beaumont, an actress and maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont, and Sir Gerald du Maurier, the prominent actor-manager, son of the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. She was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, she met many of the brightest stars of the theatre, thanks to the celebrity of her father. These connections helped her in establishing her literary career, and she published some of her early stories in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, and she continued writing successfull gothic novels in addition to biographies and other non-fiction books. Alfred Hitchcock was a fan of her novels and short stories, and adapted some of these to films: Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963). Other of her works adapted were Frenchman's Creek (1942), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1951), and "Don't Look Now" (1973). She was named a Dame of the British Empire. In 1932, she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, with whom she had three children, Tessa, Flavia and Christian. Her husband died in 1965, and she passed away on 19 April 1989 in Fowey, Cornwall. After her death, it was revealed that she was bisexual.
4.2
Rebecca
"After the death of his beautiful wife, Rebecca, Maxim de Winter goes to Monte Carlo to recover. There he marries a quiet and ordinary young woman who is very different fron his first wife. Maxim takes her back to England to Manderley, his lovely country house. The new Mrs de Winter finds that at Manderley, Rebecca is still in everyones thoughts -- including Maxim's -- and she begins to feel that she will never be able to equal Rebecca as a wife or as a mistress of Manderley. Then one day a discovery is made -- and the young Mrs de Winter begins to understand why Rebecca is still so important to all those at Manderley"...Cover.
FictionClassicsJuvenile FictionMysteries & Detective Stories
RELEASED1993
PUBLISHERLongman
LENGTH104
LANGUAGEEN
Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, the second of three daughters of Muriel Beaumont, an actress and maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont, and Sir Gerald du Maurier, the prominent actor-manager, son of the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. She was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, she met many of the brightest stars of the theatre, thanks to the celebrity of her father. These connections helped her in establishing her literary career, and she published some of her early stories in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, and she continued writing successfull gothic novels in addition to biographies and other non-fiction books. Alfred Hitchcock was a fan of her novels and short stories, and adapted some of these to films: Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963). Other of her works adapted were Frenchman's Creek (1942), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1951), and "Don't Look Now" (1973). She was named a Dame of the British Empire. In 1932, she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, with whom she had three children, Tessa, Flavia and Christian. Her husband died in 1965, and she passed away on 19 April 1989 in Fowey, Cornwall. After her death, it was revealed that she was bisexual.
