![]() ![]() It is the novel’s unnamed narrator who speaks that first line - the second Mrs de Winter, a woman perpetually in her predecessor’s shadow. ![]() Newly discovered Du Maurier poems shed light on a talented writer honing her craft This is the strange paradox of Du Maurier’s novel: its characters are doomed to refer (and defer) endlessly to Rebecca, who “always” did things, perfectly and elegantly, a certain way, while Rebecca herself never appears. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again,” the book begins - though it is not Rebecca who speaks. ![]() Its opening line perfectly encapsulates the narrative’s core theme. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (1938), belongs to this elite collection. A small group of novels are famous for their first lines: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877). ![]()
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