Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is 59th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, part of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is 59th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, part of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

8 out of 10 because this regards a theater adaptation

 

I have enjoyed Rebecca https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/rebecca-by-daphne-du-maurier-what.html both in the original, and as a film adaptation with Laurence Olivier in the leading role, furthermore, I think I have even seen (maybe just part of, I could not remember) a more recent motion picture, based on it

 

This note refers to an adaption for the National Radio, and a clumsy attempt it was, it was an unsuccessful perspective for a few reasons: technical problems, missing scenes, not just what had to be edited, but simple errors, finally, the thespians were not doing so much to delight the audiences, at least this listener was not satisfied.

Nevertheless, the story is a great one, after all, some clever (maybe it is an AI, I do not know) algorithm has placed it in the 59th spot on The Greatest Books of All Time site, where it has climbed, it used to be 64th some months ago, when I wrote the review https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-parasites-by-daphne-du-maurier-is.html

 

For Parasites, another Daphne du Maurier oeuvre, that did not really enchant me – back to Rebecca now, the narrator was a young woman without material means, working for this insufferable, rich snob, Mrs. Van Hopper, when they meet Maxim de Winter, a charming widower who is attracted by the heroine, whose name remains a mystery

This is a love story, but also a psychological thriller, the classic Games People Play https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/games-people-play-by-eric-berne.html comes to mind, the main character will eventually marry Maxim de Winter – Rebecca is the title of the chef d’oeuvre, but I do not see her as the heroine

 

Indeed, as the reader learns more, the late Rebecca ceases to be this luminous, glorious figure from the past, and we see her failures – gradually though, the center stage is taken for some time by the nefarious housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, who is devoted to her deceased mistress, and wants to punish the new spouse for taking her place

For some strange reason, the nurse from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Fletcher was the name? easy to find, but why bother, she was just as harsh and mean https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/one-flew-over-cuckoos-nest.html and Danvers wants her new mistress to kill herself

 

Then this turns into a murder mystery, and I will not reveal anything, though I am always skeptical that anybody really reads these lines, and furthermore, all the way to the end – it is as good as https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/malice-aforethought-by-anthony-berkeley.html Malice Aforethought

 

 

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