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Ce guide de lecture pratique propose un résumé et une analyse complète de Rebecca de Daphne du Maurier. Il fournit une exploration approfondie de l'intrigue, des personnages et des principaux thèmes du roman, ainsi qu'une introduction utile au genre de la littérature gothique et un examen de certains des motifs récurrents du roman. Le style clair et concis facilite la compréhension, offrant ainsi l'occasion idéale d'améliorer vos connaissances...
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A Study Guide for Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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Unlock the more straightforward side of Rebecca with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, a captivating story about a young woman whose fresh start as the new wife of a wealthy widower quickly finds herself living in the shadow of his late wife, Rebecca, whose memory seems to haunt the very halls of Manderley, the stately home she now lives in. The young bride,...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Rebecca: A Gothic Romance by Daphne du Maurier (1938) and Alfred Hitchcock (1940) is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
6) Rebecca
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"The only hardcover edition of the beloved, internationally best-selling gothic mystery. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. The unassuming young heroine of Rebecca finds her life changed overnight when she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome and wealthy widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Rescuing her from an overbearing employer, de Winter whisks her off to Manderley, his isolated estate on the windswept Cornish...
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April 1951. It has been twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, and twenty years since Manderley, the de Winter family's estate, was destroyed by fire. But Rebecca's tale is just beginning.
Colonel Julyan, an old family friend, receives an anonymous package concerning Rebecca. An inquisitive young scholar named Terence Gray appears and stirs up the quiet seaside hamlet with questions
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As an eleven-year-old, Tatiana de Rosnay read and reread Rebecca, becoming a lifelong devotee of Daphne Du Maurier's fiction. Now de Rosnay pays homage to the writer who influenced her so deeply, following Du Maurier from a shy seven-year-old, a rebellious sixteen-year-old, a twenty-something newlywed, and finally a cantankerous old lady.
9) Alena
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"A contemporary retelling of Daphne du Maurier's gripping and iconic novel Rebecca, ALENA tells the story of a bright young curator who finds herself haunted by the legacy of her predecessor at a small, cutting-edge art museum on Cape Cod"--
11) Rebecca
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2003
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A timid young girl marries a troubled widower only to find her new home is haunted by the memory of Rebecca, the first wife.
13) The beloveds
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"A deliciously creepy, slightly campy contemporary gothic -- think Shirley Jackson (We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Hangsaman) meets V.C. Andrews' multi-million copy Flowers in the Attic franchise -- that turns Daphne Du Maurier's classic Rebecca on its head"--
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"A spellbindingly suspenseful new novel set in the moneyed world of the Hamptons, about secrets that refuse to remain buried and consequences that can't be escaped. After a whirlwind romance, a young woman returns to the opulent, secluded Long Island mansion of her new fiancé Max Winter--a wealthy politician and recent widower--and a life of luxury she's never known. But all is not as it appears at the Asherley estate. The house is steeped in the...
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"Once his secretary, Colleen is now pregnant with Michael's baby. When he brings her to his opulent estate, Ravenwood, she is abruptly thrust into a life of luxury she's never known. But Colleen finds the immense house suffused with the memory of Michael's beautiful wife, Joanna, who left months ago and who haunts her imagination. It quickly becomes apparent that there is little room for a new mistress of this house: The staff greets her with hostility,...
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"From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning pioneer of "ironic gothic" (Washington Post) comes a wry and spooky set of ghost stories, replete with original illustrations. Since her acclaimed novel A Carnivore's Inquiry, Sabina Murray has been celebrated for hermastery of the gothic. Now in Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, she returns to the genre, bringing readers to haunted sites from a West Australian convent school to the moors of England to the shores...
17) Rebecca
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2008]
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A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life donimated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave.
18) Rebecca
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Criterion collection ; 135
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Criterion Collection
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[2001]
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"A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death." --
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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[2000]
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"Nina Auerbach examines the writer of depth and recklessness now largely known only as the author of Rebecca."--Jacket.
"Auerbach's Daphne Du Maurier is the author of sixteen other novels, along with biographies, articles, plays, memoirs, and short stories. Where other readers have become absorbed by Rebecca, Auerbach finds greater fascination in novels such as The Scapegoat, Hungry Hill, and My Cousin Rachel, books whose protagonists are troubled,...
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