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| | SparkNotes: Rebecca: Chapters 1-4 |
 | | Rebecca begins with the sentence, "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." The heroine, dreaming, sees herself as a ghost, flitting through the charred ruins of the once-beautiful mansion Manderley, where she once lived. |
 | | Manderley was no more." The only person to whom she could speak of it, we realize shortly, is her husband, whose name we have not yet learned. |
 | | He is Maxim de Winter, the owner of the famous estate known as Manderley, and he is reportedly in mourning for his wife, who died the previous year. |
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