Rebecca / compiled by Julia Swannell
| dc.contributor | Gilliver, Peter OUP Oxford Dictionaries |
| dc.contributor.author | Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907- |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T16:19:01Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:19:01Z |
| dc.date.created | 1938 |
| dc.date.issued | 1976-01-01 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0498 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0498 |
| dc.description.abstract | [198-?] In English Title from title page of source text |
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| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
| dc.rights | Although this resource has been deposited with us, it is not currently available for re-use by others. |
| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Novels -- Great Britain -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.other | Novels |
| dc.title | Rebecca / compiled by Julia Swannell |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 819937 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<D 1938> <A D.DU MAURIER> <T REBECCCA> <C i> <P 5> Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn. Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. The drive wound away in front of me, twisting and turning as it had always done, but as I advanced I was aware that a change had come upon it; it was narrow and unkept, not the drive that we had known. At first I was puzzled and did not under+ stand, and it was only when I bent my head to avoid the low swinging branch of a tree that I realised what had happe . . .
