Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
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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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stream of consciousness, Creoles, postcolonial literature, race, colonialism, feminist, canonical, Fiction in English, Fiction, open_syllabus_project, British, Historical fiction, Man-woman relationships, West Indies, love stories, romance fiction, Novela inglesa, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), West indies, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, Fiction, psychological, Married people, fiction, English literature, Large type books, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Britanniques, Romans, nouvelles, Social life and customs, Man-woman relationships--west indies--fiction, Pr6035.h96 w5 1992, 823/.912People
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West Indies, British West Indies, Jamaica, Coulibri, Granbois, Dominica, Thornfield HallTimes
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Wide Sargasso Sea
1999, W. W. Norton & Company, W.W. Norton
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Wide Sargasso Sea
1993, W. W. Norton
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in English
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Wide Sargasso Sea (Modern Classics)
December 1987, Penguin Putnam~trade, Penguin Classic
Paperback
- New Ed edition
0140089128 9780140089127
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Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë.
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"THEY say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."
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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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