“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” One of the most famous opening lines in literature: ambiguous, mysterious, and dreamy. Rebecca is a Gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier, originally published in 1938. The shy, awkward, and imaginative narrator, who remains unnamed throughout the novel, is a young woman whose life has taken…
June is a warm, sweet month, symbolic of many endings as well as beginnings. A school year ends, friends part, and memories begin to fade. Simultaneously, a glorious summer is unfolding, a fresh chance to enjoy life in the many sunny, ripe days to follow. As high school students, those endings and beginnings are…
“Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.” Ghosts, spirits, and heart-wrenching emotions transcending…