An edition of Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

Wide Sargasso Sea

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An edition of Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

Wide Sargasso Sea

  • 3.9 (14 ratings) ·
  • 385 Want to read
  • 17 Currently reading
  • 40 Have read

"Novel by Jean Rhys, published in 1966. A well-received work of fiction, it takes its theme from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. The book details the life of Antoinette Mason (known in Jane Eyre as Bertha), a West Indian who marries an unnamed man in Jamaica and returns with him to his home in England. Locked in a loveless marriage and settled in an inhospitable climate, Antoinette goes mad and is frequently violent. Her husband confines her to the attic of his house at Thornfield. Only he and Grace Poole, the attendant he has hired to care for her, know of Antoinette's existence. The reader gradually learns that Antoinette's unnamed husband is Mr. Rochester, later to become the beloved of Jane Eyre. Much of the action of the novel takes place in the West Indies. The first and third sections are narrated by Antoinette, the middle section by her husband."

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Publisher
Buccaneer Books
Language
English
Pages
189

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Cover of: Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
2011, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
1999, W. W. Norton & Company, W.W. Norton
Paperback in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
1993, W. W. Norton
Paperback in English - Movie Tie-In Edition (1)
Cover of: Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
1992, W. W. Norton & Company
Paperback
Cover of: Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel
1992, W. W. Norton
Paperback in English
Cover of: Wide Sargasso Sea (Modern Classics)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Modern Classics)
December 1987, Penguin Putnam~trade, Penguin Classic
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
1982, W.W. Norton
in English
Cover of: Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
1969, Penguin Books
Paperback in English - Reprint
Cover of: Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
1967, W W Norton & Company
Hardcover in English - 1st printing
Cover of: Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
1966, Buccaneer Books
Hardcover in English

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Edition Notes

Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte .

Reprinted by permission of W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Date of publication provided by publisher.

Published in
Cutchogue, N.Y., USA
Copyright Date
1966

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6035.H96 W5 1999

Contributors

Introduction
Francis Wyndham

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
189 pages ;
Number of pages
189

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26330694M
ISBN 10
1568497296
ISBN 13
9781568497297
OCLC/WorldCat
43873912, 254649027
Google
b5N5AAAAMAAJ
Goodreads
889031

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"THEY say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."

Work Description

Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of citsion's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". A sensual and protected young woman, the narrator grows up in the lush, natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into marriage to the cold-hearted and prideful Rochester, who succumbs to his need for money and his lust. Yet he will make her pay for her ancestors' sins of slaveholding, excessive drinking and nihilistic despair by enslaving her as a prisoner in his bleak British home.

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