![]() ![]() I read Jane Eyre for the first time in 2017 and remember scolding myself for all those wasted years. Jane Eyreis not only Charlotte Bronte’s most popular novel, but it might also be the most popular Bronte novel overall, and there’s a reason for that. While Rebecca is more purely gothic, Jane Eyre takes certain gothic tropes and uses them to tell a romantic tale in a big, lonely house. ![]() ![]() Of all the great classics out there, nothing is closer to Rebecca in scope, style, and atmosphere than Jane Eyre. Here are seven classic gothic novels from before, during, and after du Maurier’s time, all of which are perfect books like Rebecca. And after du Maurier there came a host of other great writers whose books we now see as equally inspirational gothic classics. Rebecca did not invent the gothic novel, but it did come to define it, especially within the 20th century.īefore du Maurier, there were the Bronte sisters. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. ![]()
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