Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier • 1938
Devastation Rating
love literary fiction historical horror
Our Take
The dead woman who controls everything and is never seen. Du Maurier makes Rebecca more present in her absence than most characters achieve in life. The narrator's namelessness is not an oversight — she cannot exist in a house so thoroughly haunted by someone else. Gothic and relentless.
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