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EuSei
Jun 23, 2015EuSei rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
An interesting story, but this is such a verbose book, that I skipped pages several times. (No wonder it was no blockbuster when first published! The movie is actually what made du Maurier famous.) There is a lot written about the main character’s feelings. Du Maurier wrote endless descriptions of how she thought others felt; sometimes there were three, four pages of the main character’s speculations. She created whole scenes where the main character imagined her interaction with others, with beginning, middle and end. After a while that gets really tiresome. The beginning of the book is a description of the main character dreaming of going to Manderley and way too long. No doubt du Maurier had a talent with words: some of her descriptions were absolutely lovely, some breath-taking and others just carried you right to the place/feeling described. Odd: you will never learn what the narrator’s name is! Nobody ever calls her by her name; she is only referred as Mrs. de Winter, very odd…