Rebecca (novel) Rebecca (novel) Rebecca is a Gothic novel by English author Dame Daphne du Maurier. A best-seller, "Rebecca" sold 2,829,313 copies between its publication in 1938 and 1965, and the book has never gone out of print. The novel is remembered especially for the character Mrs Danvers, the fictional estate Manderley, and its opening line: While working as the companion to a rich American woman on holiday in Monte Carlo, the unnamed narrator, a naïve young woman in her early 20s, becomes acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, George Fortescue Maximilian “Maxim” de Winter, a 42-year-old widower. After a fortnight of courtship,
The Rose of Tibet is set at the time of the Chinese invasion in 1950. Graham Greene said of the novel: "I hadn’t realised how much I had missed the genuine adventure story until I read "The Rose of Tibet"", while Daphne du Maurier wrote: 'It has all the excitement of "King Solomon's Mines"' Author Barry Gifford considers this book the one he wishes he had written. He has written about it in his collection of essays "The Cavalry Charges" and has called it 'a genuine work of literature. I was immediately charmed by the device Davidson employed to entice the reader into believing