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.
Hearing in "Confessions of a Tourist", the author turned the material for conversations, conducted for the press over the years, into a fictitious hearing in which questions are asked about politics, adventures, literature, criticism...