Rebecca

Rebecca has been my favorite book for some 50 years now. I have lost track of how many times I have read it; at least once a year, and I enjoy devouring it every time. Listening to it on CD, however, read by Emma Fielding, is a whole new experience. Du Maurier's words, read by Fielding, can only be described as delicious! Every morsel leaves you somehow completely satisfied and yet hungering for more. Combining perfect ingredients, Du Maurier allows Rebecca to reach out from her crypt to influence the entire novel. Plain, painfully shy, and awkward, the second Mrs. de Winter arrives at Manderly mansion. Adoring her new husband, and well aware of her own shortcomings, she assumes his dead wife must have been his equal and is haunted by the elegant, accomplished, and beautiful, Rebecca. The sweet and sour of the story tantalizes the readers pallet and brings surprises to the table. You will find yourself desiring dishes you have habitually rejected as you cheer for the guilty and trade your sense of morality for the happy ending you desire. If you enjoyed dining on Rebecca, order up dessert and listen to it read by Emma Fielding!

I searched high and low for this play as it is one of my absolute favourite Du Maurier novels and this is the ONLY stage play approved by the author herself and it is NOT EASY to come by. However, I waited weeks and weeks and it never arrived. Then a couple months later I simply received a message that the item was undeliverable or lost or something like that and I would be getting my money back.

It is amazing how much difference a reader can make in telling a story. This reader, Emma Fielding, makes the retelling of Rebecca seem like it is the first time I have heard the story. Her portrayal of the 2nd Mrs de Winter is spot on. Emma's voice has just the right touch of timidity and apprehension which are crucial to the 2nd Mrs de Winter's character. All other versions I have heard do not compare.

I've reviewed Daphne du Maurier's novel, "Rebecca," elsewhere, but this is about the book (script) for the stage play.As far as an adaptation can, it does a good job. DDM herself wrote the play, and she knew what to highlight to keep the chills in place. But the Monte Carlo prologue is removed--and the only early-on sympathy any reader might feel for Maxim is in that prologue. The rest of the story--a period of several months--is squashed into three days, and so a lot of atmosphere and character-building is removed and the remainder feels a little rushed. The climax and denouement are the same, but since it happens so fast, I just didn't feel it as much. The book, the real novel, spends time building the world of Manderley and the atmosphere the narrator lives in, so you feel with her all the terrifying/humiliating parts along with her. Not so much in the play.FYI, I read this mainly because I had reviewed another book--a historical novel set in the 1940s--which mentioned this play, and one of the characters in the novel claimed to have gotten the role of "Rebecca" in the stage play. This astonished me, because in the book, and the movie, and at least two adaptations for television, all of which I've seen, the character of Rebecca does not appear. She is only discussed in dialogue or alluded to as the narrator touches things formerly belonging to Rebecca. I was certain Rebecca would not have been in the stage play either, especially if I wrote it. And I was right. So if you go into the play looking for Rebecca, you'll find her essence, and feel her presence, but if you see her, you must be reading a different version by a different author.

This is my Mother's favorite book. She is now 85 and has trouble reading small print. The only copies of the novel I could find were in small print and she couldn't find Rebecca on her Kendle. This was the perfect solution.

Beware if you are looking for the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurer this is not that. This is a play. Description was not clear.

The play is fine and met my needs....but...the book itself is printed in what looks to be 6 or 8 point type.....even with reader glasses it's very uncomfortable to read - and it's a large enough book that it didn't have to be such tiny type font.

This is an accurate, clever,and complete transfer into script, from book format. No errors found except for script version where Maxim actually pulls the trigger.

I loved this story and couldn’t put it down. Much better than the movies, as usual.

Attention, pour les acheteurs non avertis (comme moi), le texte est en version originale, donc en anglais. Mais très bien dit, bonne qualité.

This audio cd recording is absolutley perfect for Rebecca. The reader captures the feel of the young innocence of the narrator and manages to build the sense of impending danger and threat. I loved listening to this recording and would recommend it without reservation.

Very good audio cd. The story was read very well with feeling.

I was expecting the actual book and got a play instead written for the book. The seller should specify it more clearly that it’s not Rebecca the book, but Rebecca, play on the book