A beautiful book, including the design, the paper, the type, and the slipcase is very helpful in protecting the book. It’s a gift for my wife and the quality of the book should increase the enjoyment of the reading.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
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An immediate success on its release, Rebecca gripped readers with its drama, romance and mystery, and was soon adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock. This edition of Daphne du Maurier’s macabre masterpiece features a bold cover design and atmospheric colour and black and white images by D. G. Smith. Introducer Helen Dunmore discusses how this extraordinary psychological thriller, with its echoes of Jane Eyre, is also a searing exploration of patriarchy, retribution, female sexuality and class prejudice.‘A mesmerising novel which reveals more on each reading’Helen DunmoreMeek and malleable but with a compelling narrative voice, Rebecca’s unreliable narrator is a masterly creation, artfully wielded by the author to beguile and disorientate the reader. For this gauche girl, life begins when the handsome and elusive Maxim de Winter rescues her from an odious employer and makes her his wife and mistress of Manderley, his legendary ancestral home. But, plagued by feelings of inadequacy and insecurity, she becomes obsessed with the image of Maxim’s deceased first wife, Rebecca. Embodying everything that her successor lacks, Rebecca is held up as a peerless, charismatic beauty whose allure is only heightened by her tragic demise. In death as in life, Rebecca holds sway over Manderley and all who knew her, from the tormented and malevolent housekeeper, Mrs Danvers, to the failing mother-in-law who cries out her name.My voice was steady and cool. Not like my heart thumping inside me. Not like my mind, bitter and resentfulIncreasingly isolated by her husband’s erratic moods, and the sinister manipulations of Mrs Danvers, the second Mrs de Winter ventures ever deeper into Manderley’s brooding secrets. With its subtle layers of ambiguity and concealment, Rebecca, as Dunmore writes, is a ’mesmerising novel which reveals more on each reading’. Smith’s illustrations for this edition play with the inscrutable nature of Du Maurier’ two heroines, never fully revealing the anonymous narrator nor the bewitching, enigmatic Rebecca. The binding depicts Rebecca’s monogram, a bold ’R’ overshadowing a smaller ’de W’, a symbol of Rebecca’s charisma and her dominion over the second Mrs de Winter.
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It's a gorgeous edition of one of my favorite books!
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Book is very beautiful. I cannot wait to read it and the packaging was done with care.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Great condition. Excellent price.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
A beautiful version of a classic novel. I cannot wait to read this elegant copy of my favorite book. The illustrations are wonderful, my favorite the villainess, Mrs. Danvers. Here's to Daphne du Maurier and Folio!
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Simply stunning
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
This will be treasured by my wife. I cant wait to see her face on Christmas Day.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
This book was well presented and the art work was very good and fitted the story
Quality: 4
Value for money: 5
The Illustrations are beautiful and the quality is phenomenal.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
For my first order with The Folio Society, I chose Rebecca. This book was a longtime favourite, that my late mother had recommended to me, and which we often discussed. I wanted a really lovely edition, after my first copy literally fell to pieces. The Folio Society edition is stunningly beautiful. It's everything I could have hoped for and more. Beautifully made, with wonderful illustrations. Feels great in the hand, and looks terrific on the shelf. It arrived in excellent condition. FS books are a bit higher on the price scale than I'm accustomed to paying, particularly when the postage cost is added, but the product did justify the cost to me for this book. I'm very happy with my purchase.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 4
Quality product and first class service
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
I love this book! I’m currently upgrading my paperbacks to hardcovers and am so happy to have such a beautiful book (it’s one of my favorite stories)!
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Delighted that I stumbled on this edition n an online review. A classic novel given a sumptuous makeover by the people who do it best.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Book looks really good from the outside not opened yet as bought as a xmas present. I know the recipient will be very happy.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Beautifully presented
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Great book
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
An absolutely beautiful book!
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
First class
Quality: 5
The Folio Society can always be relied upon for excellent quality, beautiful books and flawless service. This edition of Rebecca is stunning and beautIfully bound and illustrated.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Absolutely wonderful attention to detail.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5