• Title: Rebecca
• Author: Daphne Du Maurier
• Genre/Subject: Thriller
• Publisher: Virago
• Publication Date: 1938
• Start date: 2/18/2023
• Finish date: 2/24/2023

Review:

I was enchanted for the first 30 pages but then it just went on and on.

An influential novel, an important novel. A tiresome novel.

Rebecca, or, Proust-writes-a-thriller. There was no need for this to be 428 pages. Even if you just cut out every description of scones you could trim a hundred pages.

The first line can’t be beat, and I’m glad I read this finally. But I’m glad to be finished.