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Jan 25, 2016 · Jean Rhys (1890–1979), one of the foremost writers of the twentieth century, is the author of Wide Sargasso Sea —her last and best-known novel—as well as After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, Voyage in the Dark, and Good Morning, Midnight, all available in Norton paperback. This “tour de force” (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th ...
Jean Rhys gives form and substance to the mysterious madwoman of Jane Eyre. This imaginary story constructs Antoinette Bertha Cosway's early years in Jamaica in the 1830's. Jill Masters's West Indies dialect is excellent. It is a bright relief from her dour elecution of instruction on how to handle and care for audio tapes; she continues this ...
Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea , based on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre , takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839–45., Wide Sargasso Sea, A Norton Critical Edition, Jean Rhys, Judith L Raiskin, 9780393960129
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May 29, 2019 · When Wide Sargasso Sea, her last novel, was published, Jean Rhys (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was described in The New York Times as the greatest living novelist. Such praise is overstated, but Rhys’s fiction, long overlooked by academic critics, is undergoing a revival spurred by feminist studies. Rhys played a noteworthy role….
One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'. Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now... Now they have taken everything away.
Jean Rhys (1890-1979), one of the foremost writers of the twentieth century, is the author of Wide Sargasso Sea--her last and best-known novel--as well as After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, Voyage in the Dark, and Good Morning, Midnight, all available in Norton paperback. Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and came to America at age twelve to ...
