‛Other Books Like Rebecca? Are There Any?’: The Singular Fate of a Novel

Daphne Du Maurier’s international bestseller, Rebecca, has always puzzled readers, reviewers, and critics alike. Often hard put to define why the novel them in its thrall what genre or category it can be said fall under, they resort explanations which are both numerically impressive strikingly contradictory. To underline exceptional singularity of such a work, unique literary historical status fifth will first analysed. surprisingly unperceptive assessment her own work then studied, before publication after became runaway bestseller. Finally, we have look at some critical attention recently received, press academic articles, show that assessing categorising Rebecca been contentious issue, not just for author but also large.