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Another list of favorites. This time the classics have their turn.
I have restricted myself to choosing five, but really…that is not enough, I know. Still, for the sake of not making my list two whole pages, here are my picks.
1. Pride and prejudice – Jane Austen: who doesn’t know the story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy? The best love story of all times.
2. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier: a haunting story with a twist of two women struggling for the attention of one man.
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Mary Katherine (‘Merricat’) Blackwood lives, together with her older sister Constance and Uncle Julian, in a castle, long ago bought by her ancestors. It is a beautiful and mighty castle, but something horrible happened eight years ago and that is why the fences and castle doors are closed for all (town) people. Mary Katherine has to go to town twice a week for groceries and has her own ritual to go around there, because otherwise she gets lost in hateful sneers and looks of the town people. The rest of the time the Blackwoods are cut of from everyday life, but they like it that way.
Until, one day cousin Charles appears at the doorsteps of the castle. His intentions are clear for Mary Katherine, but Constance is dragged into Charles’s mindset and all that has happened eight years ago is coming back to the service.
Dr. Montague is an occult scholar and he wants some solid evidence about the phenomenon called haunting. He sets his eyes on Hill House, a big mansion up in the hills, to conduct his study. The house is said to be haunted and anybody who tried living there, moved out after only three or four days (and nights). Dr. Montague is set on explaining. To do so he invites three others to live with him in Hill House, all somewhat experienced in the phenomenon. First there is Theodora, his lighthearted assistant, always in for a good scaring and laugh. Then there is Luke, the heir to be of the place. He has to be there, because of his aunt, who didn’t want anyone in the place without some family. And last but not least, there is Eleanor, an emotionally unstable girl, no stranger to the ‘unknown’. How long will they stand the haunting of Hill House?
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