My Cousin Rachel

12 hrs. 22 min.

Language Russian

Author Daphne du Maurier

Narrator Alla Chovzhyk

Description

Daphne du Maurier’s novel (1907–1989) “My Cousin Rachel,” according to many critics, is no less good than the famous “Rebecca,” and in some ways even surpasses it. This is a wonderful example of the tradition of the “gothic” and “sensational” novel, the founder of which is considered Wilkie Collins: a detective intrigue blends with an unusual romantic drama unfolding against lyrical landscapes of Cornwall and vivid pictures of Italy in the 1940s. With every twist of the plot, the reader becomes more and more unsure who is in front of them—a victim of unfair suspicion or a calculating intriguer and murderer. But no matter which version the reader leans toward, the ending will shock them. Published in 1951, the novel instantly became a bestseller, and just a year later a film of the same name was released with Olivia de Havilland and a young Richard Barton; in 1983, a TV miniseries was made based on the novel.