Wide Sargasso Sea

Name: Wide Sargasso Sea
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Jean Rhys

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Penguin Modern Classics

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"Wonderful Post Colonial literature"

Review by Geri on 11th September, 2016

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Seriously awesome book. The back story of the ‘mad woman in the attic’ in Jane Eyre

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Jean Rhys's unique prequel to Jane Eyre, a masterpiece of twentieth century literature Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness.

Author Biography:

Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumstances over a long period. Rhys died in 1979.

Release date Australia

August 3rd, 2000

Author

Jean Rhys

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Andrea Ashworth

Pages

176

Series

Penguin Modern Classics

Dimensions

129x198x9

ISBN-13

9780141185422

Product ID

1958663

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