“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” So the second
Mrs. Maxim deWinter remembered the chilling events that led her
down the turning drive past the beeches, white and naked, to the
isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast. With a
husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense
estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs.
deWinter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten... her
suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her
servant—the sinister Mrs. Danvers—still loyal. As an eerie
presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs.
deWinter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca and for the
secrets of Manderly.
關於作者：
Daphne Du Maurier was born in London on May 13, 1907 and
educated in Paris. In 1932, she married Lieutenant-General Sir
Frederick Browning. She began writing short stories of mystery and
suspense for magazines in 1928, a collection of which appeared as
The Apple Tree in 1952. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was
published in 1931. Her tightly woven, highly suspenseful plots and
her strong characters make her stories perfect for adaptation to
film or television. Among her many novels that were made into
successful films are Jamaica Inn 1936, Rebecca 1938,
Frenchman''s Creek 1941, Hungry Hill 1943, My Cousin Rachel
1952, and The Scapegoat 1957. Her short story The Birds 1953
was brought to screen by director Alfred Hitchcock in a treatment
that has become a classic horror-suspense film. She died on April
19, 1989 at the age of 81.
內容試閱：
"Surely no audiobook collection should be without some version
of this timeless classic, arguably the most famous and well-loved
gothic novel of the 20th century, and this production would be an
excellent choice. Read in wonderfully British cadences by Anna
Massey, all the mysterious and oppressive nuances are made
immediate and chilling. We even feel some sympathy for the absurdly
timid and cowering heroine; it is, after all, easy to imagine
feeling woefully inferior to the predecessor and desperately eager
to please. Of course the story requires great leaps of credulity...
Forget the movie; it makes mincemeat of the actual tale. A wise
seven-year-old once told me, "The book is always betterDit goes
right into your head." This is a prime exampleDlisten again; it
gets even better. Highly recommended."
--DHarriet Edwards
"Rebecca is a novel of mystery and passion, a dark psychological
tale of secrets and betrayal, dead loves and an estate called
Manderley that is as much a presence as the humans who inhabit it:
"when the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy
movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly
and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the
pitter, patter of a woman''s hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the
gravel the imprint of a high-heeled satin shoe." Manderley is
filled with memories of the elegant and flamboyant Rebecca, the
first Mrs. DeWinter; with the obsessive love of her housekeeper,
Mrs. Danvers, who observes the young, timid second Mrs. DeWinter
with sullen hostility; and with the oppressive silences of a
secretive husband, Maxim. Rebecca may be physically dead, but she
is a force to contend with, and the housekeeper''s evil matches that
of her former mistress as a purveyor of the emotional horror thrust
on the innocent Mrs. DeWinter. The tension builds as the new Mrs.
DeWinter slowly grows and asserts herself, surviving the wicked
deceptions of Mrs. Danvers and the silent deceits of her husband,
to emerge triumphant in the midst of a surprise ending that leaves
the reader with a sense of haunting justice."
--Vickie Sears
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