11/15/2022 0 Comments Plague inc in the house in a heartbeat![]() ![]() Julius Beaufort’s home, Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence We first see it in the prologue, when Charles Ryder, now a soldier, hears about the place up the road where the British army has set up brigade headquarters, an old castle with a church attached: “I had been there before I knew all about it.” ![]() Long before Downton Abbey, Waugh’s classic gave us the large English estate that had seen better times as a symbol of the decline of the British aristocracy. Thank goodness Danielewski’s characters are stupider braver than we are, because it results in one of the creepiest books of the last 25 years.īrideshead Castle, Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited We’d normally suggest moving out of a house when you find a door that wasn’t there before that leads to a maze that leads to other rooms. And if you want a better visual representation of Manderley, you can’t go wrong with Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of the book. It’s one of the most famous opening lines in literature: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” From there, du Maurier turns the country estate filled with antiques, heirlooms, and evil housekeepers that would make the Downtown Abbey staff look like kittens into one of the most important characters in this classic Gothic novel. What would some of your favorite stories be without the creepy old farmhouses, crumbling castles, and estates overlooking a body of water whose waves crash against the rocks at night? Today, as we celebrate the birthday of Daphne du Maurier - a writer who gave us one of the 20th century’s most unforgettable grand old homes, in Rebecca - we’re rounding up the most memorable structures that served as settings for some of our favorite stories. Great characters in literature get all the credit, but the fictional spaces they occupy are often just as interesting and can provide an opportunity for the reader to go even deeper into a story. ![]()
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