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Wide Sargasso Sea
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A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean.
Jean Rhys's late 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.
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is praised for its vivid, lyrical prose and its powerful, feminist reimagining of the backstory to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Critics often highlight Rhys's ability to capture the complex themes of cultural identity, colonialism, and madness, offering a poignant perspective from the viewpoint of Bertha Mason, the "madwoman in the attic". The novel is celebrated for deepening the reader's understanding of Brontë's work while standing alone as a compelling, haunting narrative.
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ISBN: 9780241281901
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 October 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Introduction by Andrea Ashworth
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 205.0mm
Weight: 292g
Pages: 192
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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