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Rebecca was the first work du Maurier published after nabbing a three-book deal with a fat £1,000 advance (about $88,000 U.S.

In Daphne du Maurier: A Daughter’s Memoir, her daughter Flavia Leng described the du Maurier home as a writers utopia: “The house was always filled with well-known folk from the world of theatre and literature.” Peter Pan author J.M. Daphne’s grandfather George du Maurier’s gothic novel Trilby introduced the now-legendary character “Svengali” to the canon her father, Gerald, was a stage actor so famous that du Maurier cigarettes are named after him. The du Mauriers were a famous and wealthy family of actors and writers. Du Maurier’s fifth novel made her a literary sensation at 31, although not one without a head start. Published in 1938, Rebecca was an overnight success-the initial print run of 20,000 flew off bookstore shelves.

This version-premiering 80 years after Alfred Hitchcock’s timeless best-picture winner-casts Armie Hammer and Lily James as rich widower Maxim de Winter and his nameless bride, who’s slowly consumed with envy as she grows obsessed with his first wife, Rebecca. Van Hopper gets a fever Does the narrator think that Mrs.On October 21, Netflix premieres a film reincarnation of an old classic: Rebecca, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Van Hopper's torrent of gossip? He was polite and quiet In Monte Carlo, what did the narrator receive? A note from Maxim that apologized to her, with her name spelled correctly What happens the day after the narrator meets Maxim? Mrs. Van Hopper sent the narrator to go get coffee, what did Maxim say? That the both of them were going to have coffee with him When she first spoke to him, where did the narrator say she thought Maxim belonged? To a walled city Why did the narrator feel very awkward around Maxim at their first encounter in Monte Carlo? She felt he was too superior and she was too young and stupid to talk to him How did Maxim react to Mrs. Van Hopper's biggest quality? Her curiosity When Mrs. Van Hopper sees at the hotel in Monte Carlo? Maxim de Winter, who is still recovering from his wife's death What was Mrs. Van Hopper, what does the waiter give the narrator? The left-overs of someone else's meal Who is the 'famous person' Mrs. Danver's was doing? Comparing her to Rebecca At the hotel with Mrs. How does the narrator know Maxim is remembering Manderley? A masks forms on his face, he smokes a lot, and he talks very quickly In the hotel room, what made the narrator remember Manderley? An article on wood pigeons What did the narrator always think Mrs. In the hotel room, how often does Maxim remember Manderley? More than he can tell the narrator.