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3 days ago · Jean Rhys' 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.
4 days ago · Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1993 Australian film adaptation of Jean Rhys's novel, exploring the story of Antoinette Cosway, who marries Mr. Rochester and becomes the 'madwoman in the attic' from Jane Eyre.
5 days ago · Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1993 Australian film adaptation of Jean Rhys's novel, exploring the story of Antoinette Cosway, who marries Mr. Rochester and becomes the 'madwoman in the attic' from Jane Eyre.
2 days ago · Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is known for its experimental style and its reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the Western canon. [1] Written over a period of seventeen years and published in 1939, the novel was Joyce's final work. It is written in a largely idiosyncratic language that blends ...
- James Joyce
- English
- 1939
- 4 May 1939
2 days ago · Ibiza, one of the Balearic Islands, in the western Mediterranean Sea off the east coast of Spain. (more) Mediterranean Sea, an intercontinental sea that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to Asia on the east and separates Europe from Africa. It has often been called the incubator of Western civilization.
3 days ago · Caspian Sea, world’s largest inland body of water. It lies to the east of the Caucasus Mountains and to the west of the vast steppe of Central Asia. The sea’s name derives from the ancient Kaspi peoples, who once lived in Transcaucasia to the west.
