The Collected Short Stories

Name: The Collected Short Stories
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780141984858
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By Jean Rhys

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys offers a selection of poignant tales that explore the lives of women navigating complex personal and social landscapes. Set against vibrant backdrops, each story delves into themes of identity, displacement, and interpersonal relationships, capturing the struggles and resilience of its characters with Rhys's signature sensitivity and keen insight. The collection encapsulates a range of emotions and settings, providing readers with a rich tapestry of human experiences.
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You might enjoy this collection if you appreciate deeply insightful and beautifully crafted narratives that explore themes of alienation, identity, and the search for belonging. Set in various exotic locales, these stories often feature complex, introspective characters, offering a rich and evocative reading experience. Jean Rhys's unique voice and her ability to capture the intricacies of human emotion make this work compelling for lovers of literary fiction.

The Collected Short Stories

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New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea.

Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by her own, painful memories—of cheap hotels and drab Parisian cafes; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities, always on the periphery and always perilously close to the abyss.

Rendered in extraordinarily vivid, honest prose, these stories show Rhys at the height of her literary powers and offer a fascinating counterpoint to her most famous novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. This volume includes all the stories from her three collections, The Left Bank (1927), Tigers Are Better-Looking (1968) and Sleep It Off, Lady (1976).

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The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys is highly praised for its exceptional British short stories from the last century, offering a deeply personal and universal experience. The stories are commended for their elegant prose combined with profound insights into human psychology, delving into themes of longing, desire, and emotional intensity. Jean Rhys's unparalleled talent makes her one of the twentieth-century literary giants.

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ISBN: 9780141984858

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 April 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 294g

Pages: 400

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Fiction General Fiction Jean Rhys Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Classics

About the Author

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.

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