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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...
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.
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Oct 20, 2016 · Wide Sargasso Sea turned Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel inside out. As the book celebrates its 50th anniversary, Hephzibah Anderson explains its enduring power.
Aug 24, 2023 · Wide Sargasso Sea is an astonishing, hallucinatory fantasy about the early life, and eventual psychological disintegration, of the first Mrs. Rochester—aka Bertha from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
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...
Sep 2, 2016 · “Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19 th century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20 th century,” Michele Roberts has said of Wide Sargasso Sea. The novel didn’t just take inspiration from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, it illuminated and confronted it, challenged the narrative.