Wide Sargasso Sea

Name: Wide Sargasso Sea
Brand: Jean Rhys
SKU: 9780141182858
Price: 8.24 GBP
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by Jean Rhys

Title:

Wide Sargasso Sea

Author:

Jean Rhys

Series (if any):

Penguin Modern Classics

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

192 pages

Publisher:

TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale

ISBN-13:

9780141182858

EAN:

9780141182858

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

266

Dimensions (mm):

128 x 197 x 14

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£8.24

114 copies in stock

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Description

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century' Michele RobertsJean Rhys's masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful masterpiece. Edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith