Wide Sargasso Sea
$32.32
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2016
Summary
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 h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241281901 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241281903 |
| Author: | Jean Rhys, Andrea Ashworth |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 297g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 136mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
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About The Author
Jean Rhys
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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