![]() It even found admirers on both sides of the war: Neville Chamberlain took his copy with him when he flew to Munich to meet Hitler, and the Germans, in turn, fashioned a cryptogram from the text.īut to women - some women, my kind of women - this book is something more, not merely beloved or popular but foundational. The novel inspired the film adaptation directed by Alfred Hitchcock, spinoffs and a line of watches. What happened was “Rebecca,” an instant best seller that has never gone out of print and still sells about 50,000 copies a year, according to its British publishers. “Until wife 2 is haunted day and night … a tragedy is looming very close and crash! Bang! Something happens.” ![]() “Very roughly, the book will be about the influence of a first wife on a second,” she wrote. In 1937 an Englishwoman - bright and bored and drowning in children - sat down and sketched out a story. ![]()
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