‘Rebecca’ Debuts on Netflix This Week. The Book Is Even More Tantalizing.

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Initially dismissed by critics, Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 bestseller 'Rebecca' delivers plot twists, promiscuity, dark secrets and, best of all, backstabbing servants. We revisit the psychological thriller before the Netflix adaptation premieres.

IF YOU’VE NEVER read Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca,” you’re in for a surprise. Initially dismissed by critics as women’s romance fiction, this 1938 bestseller delivers plot twists, promiscuity, dark secrets and, best of all, backstabbing servants.

But it's since been celebrated by feminist scholars for its critique of gender roles. On the surface, it tells the story of a mousy young woman—the traveling companion to a nosy American matron—who meets the wealthy and withholding widower Maxim de Winter while he’s on holiday in...

 

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One of my favs. May watch tonight and buy the book. Perfect cinema

Not sure Netflix can improve on Hitchcock’s Rebecca.

Painful high school reading. All smoke and no sizzle.

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