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Set against the lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica, Jean Rhys's powerful, haunting story was inspired by the first Mrs Rochester, in Charlotte Bronte's JANE EYRE.
Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. But soon after their marriage, rumours of madness in her family poison his mind against her. He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals, unaware that he is pushing her towards madness, and towards a terrible conclusion amongst the leaping flames at Thornfield Hall . . .
Jean Rhys was born in Domenica in 1890 but came to London when she was sixteen. She began to write after the first of her three marriages broke up, but without any particular success, perhaps because her writing was decades ahead of its time. Nearlytwenty years after her books had gone out of print, she made a sensational re-appearance in 1966 with WIDE SARGASSO SEA, which won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the WH Smith award. She died in 1979.
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- EditorialPenguin
- Año de publicación1998
- ISBN 10 0140274219
- ISBN 13 9780140274219
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- Número de páginas160
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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(1998)
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Descripción Soft cover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/a whisper of shelfwear.British novelist Jean Rhys (1890 - 1979), appointed 1978 a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her writings, was born & raised in the Caribbean island of Dominica until the age of 16 before sent to England for schooling. This, her best known novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, was written in 1966, won the Royal Society of Literature Award, and the W.H. Smith Award; this is a 1998 reprint edition. Written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Set in 1880s Jamaica, an account of a Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway who marries a young Englishman --- she spirited child which the British Empire's Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 plunged into poverty, and he who embraced rigid, Victorian values & expecting wives to behave accordingly. He will force Antoinette to conform, unaware that in denying her her identiy, pushes her into madness, and destroys a part of himself as well! 152 pgs in 3 parts. Part I, Antoinette's childhood; II, Alternating points of view of Antoinette and husband during their honeymoon; and III, Again from Antoinette perspective, now in England, renamed "Bertha", and, hidden & confined to the attic under guard. Brilliant novel of social dislocation & dispossession as world's social-philosophical values change. Nº de ref. del artículo: 020658
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