Book · 1938 · Married women
Rebecca
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Rebecca, which I must have read when I was 10 or 12 and which is most emphatically not a love story but a creepy story of two women one dead one alive who are in effect haunting each other.
What they say about it
- Praises as a thriller2
- Mentions the famous adaptation“famous Alfred Hitchcock movie”2
The best things said about it
So for example Rebecca by Daphne dorier perfect Thriller.
It's like in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. People know the movie, but if you read the book, you realize you never hear her name.
Rebecca, amazing thriller.
He has a little discussion about Daphne Demorier's novels um and Jamaica in particularly and Rebecca and he talks you know his reading of of Daphne Demorier is as is as a feminist you.
So Rebecca Daphne dorier made to a famous Alfred Hitchcock movie.
Where and when it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
5 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is a classic psychological thriller that follows a young second wife haunted by the lingering memory and presence of her husband's deceased first wife at a remote estate. On The Book Review, Sarah Lyall recommended the novel as a perfect and exemplary thriller that she enjoyed reading during her youth, later revisiting the genre alongside works like The Turn of the Screw. Andrew Sean Greer discussed the book on How I Write, pointing out how du Maurier uniquely withholds the main narrator's name throughout the narrative. Mary Harrington brought up the novel on Modern Wisdom while discussing feminist perspectives on gender relations within du Maurier's writing. Tina Jordan shared on The Book Review that Rebecca was the first genuinely creepy book she encountered around age ten or twelve, describing it not merely as a romance, but as a chilling tale of two women haunting each other. Additionally, Gilbert Cruz noted the novel's enduring cultural impact on The Book Review by discussing its famous cinematic adaptation directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Every mention
Sarah Lyall so for example Rebecca by Daphne dorier perfect Thriller 2
“So other things were like Rebecca, amazing thriller, The Turn of the Screw, and you know, you read those not knowing what genre they are, but oh my god, there are thrillers.”
“so for example Rebecca by Daphne dorier perfect Thriller”
Andrew Sean Greer But it's like in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. People know the movie, but if you read the book, you realize… 1
“But it's like in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. People know the movie, but if you read the book, you realize you never hear her name.”
Gilbert Cruz so Rebecca Daphne dorier made to a famous Alfred Hitchcock movie 1
“so Rebecca Daphne dorier made to a famous Alfred Hitchcock movie”
Mary Harrington he has a little discussion about Daphne Demorier's novels um and Jamaica in particularly and Rebecca and he… 1
“he has a little discussion about Daphne Demorier's novels um and Jamaica in particularly and Rebecca and he talks you know his reading of of Daphne Demorier is as is as a feminist you”
Tina Jordan so the first really creepy book I remember reading and I'm sure STI will identify with this is Rebecca whic… 1
“so the first really creepy book I remember reading and I'm sure STI will identify with this is Rebecca which I must have read when I was 10 or 12 12 and which is most emphatically not a love story but a creepy story of two women one dead one alive who are in effect haunting each other”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Yeah, I recently read Rebecca by Daphne Demorier. Have you ever read that?”
“and at some point gave me the audio book of Rebecca by dapne De morier and the audio book read by Clare Bloom and was sort of like have had it work it out”
“one of them of course is Rebecca by Daphne de morier and the other is Jane a”