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When Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's masterpiece of Gothic romance, was first published in 1938, it became instantly popular, and was made into a film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring the alluring and shy Joan Fontaine as "I" and the handsome and brooding Laurence Olivier as Maxim de Winter. The story is set in a grand English mansion, Manderley, an estate on the wild Cornish coast.

Despite its popularity in novel and film form, many critics dismissed du Maurier's talent and her masterpiece as being melodrama and a pale imitation of the Bronte sisters, Charlotte and Emily, and their masterpieces Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

However, a close reading of du Maurier's Rebecca reveals that her prose stands up to a literary criticism, and tells a timeless story that took the Gothic genre and stretched it into modern day applications.