
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
1847

Daphne du Maurier · 1938
386 pages
A shy young woman marries the widowed Maxim de Winter and arrives at Manderley, his grand estate by the sea. There she is measured against his first wife, the beautiful Rebecca, whose presence lingers in every room, in the servants' loyalty and in a secret nobody will speak.
Gothic, Gothic Manor, Byronic Hero, Unreliable Narrator, Twist Ending, Creeping Dread