Daphne Du Maurier
1) Rebecca
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
880L
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English
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"The only hardcover edition of the beloved, internationally best-selling gothic mystery. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. The unassuming young heroine of Rebecca finds her life changed overnight when she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome and wealthy widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Rescuing her from an overbearing employer, de Winter whisks her off to Manderley, his isolated estate on the windswept Cornish...
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Jaded by the numbing politeness of Restoration London, Lady Dona St. Columb revolts against high society. She rides into the countryside, guided only by her restlessness and her longing to escape. But when chance leads her to meet a French pirate, hidden within Cornwall's shadowy forests, Dona discovers that her passions and thirst for adventure have never been more aroused. Together, they embark upon a quest rife with danger and glory, one which...
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A companion to the 1938 gothic novel "Rebecca," in which the appearance of Rebecca de Winters' diary twenty years after her death spurs family friend Colonel Julyan, his daughter Ellie, and mysterious young scholar Terence Gray to search for the truth about Rebecca's supposed suicide and the destruction of Manderly, the de Winter estate.