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3.59. 93,460 ratings8,326 reviews. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of ...
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Jun 25, 2012 · Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - review. 'The writing seemed to become muddled - just like Antoinette's mind'. Dannii. Mon 25 Jun 2012 04.00 EDT. Written many years after Charlotte Bronte's Jane ...
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Jul 15, 2014 · Antoinette Conway is an orphan, too, as a Creole heiress marooned in Jamaica, in the ruins of a slaving culture that has made her a pariah to her black neighbours. When she is a child, the family ...
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Wide Sargasso Sea is not just a great novel, it is many brilliant books in one. Multi-layered and complex, Jean Rhys's prelude to Jane Eyre vividly illustrates how accounts and understanding ...
Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë 's novel Jane Eyre (1847), describing the background to Mr. Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway , a Creole heiress.
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Oct 20, 2016 · That book became Wide Sargasso Sea but it wasn’t until 1966, after many years of drafting and redrafting, that it was released. Rhys was 76 and hadn’t published anything in 27 years.
Sep 2, 2016 · Wide Sargasso Sea. By Danielle McLaughlin. September 2, 2016. Revisited. Revisited is a series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago. Drawing of a house in the West Indies. In the summer of 1986, I finished secondary school, and that autumn I enrolled in a secretarial course in Cork City.