The novel "Rebecca" (1938), a Gothic classic, follows a nameless young woman, the poor companion of a rich American woman, who falls in love with the charming widower Maxim de Winter, owner of the luxurious Manderley estate in Cornwall, in Monte Carlo.
The Stranger is a novel by French writer and philosopher Albert Camus. Published in 1942, it is one of the most significant novels in twentieth-century French literature and one of the best literary depictions of the absurdity of human existence.