Published by W. W. Norton & Company 1/25/2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 0393352560 ISBN 13: 9780393352566
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 0241951550 ISBN 13: 9780241951552
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The spell-binding novel that was inspired by Jane Eyre'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now. Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?'If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals, unaware that in taking away her identity he is destroying a part of himself as well as pushing her towards madness.Set against the lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica, Jean Rhys's powerful, haunting masterpiece was inspired by her fascination with the first Mrs Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141185422 ISBN 13: 9780141185422
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Jean Rhys's unique prequel to Jane Eyre, a masterpiece of twentieth century literatureJean Rhys's late, literary 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. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by W. W. Norton & Co., 2010
ISBN 10: 0393308804 ISBN 13: 9780393308808
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Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, 1993
ISBN 10: 0393310485 ISBN 13: 9780393310481
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Published by W.W. Norton & Co., 1982
ISBN 10: 0582488966 ISBN 13: 9780582488960
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141182857 ISBN 13: 9780141182858
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics.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.If you enjoyed Wide Sargasso Sea, you might like Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, also available in Penguin Classics. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by W. W. Norton & Company 11/17/1998, 1998
ISBN 10: 0393960129 ISBN 13: 9780393960129
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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Wide Sargasso Sea: Backgrounds, Criticism 0.65. Book.
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Published by Hodder Arnold H&S, 1989
ISBN 10: 0340499818 ISBN 13: 9780340499818
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Published by DEBOLSILLO, 2011
ISBN 10: 8499087442 ISBN 13: 9788499087443
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