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Wide Sargasso Sea
First published 1966
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About this book
Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of citsion's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre".
A sensual and protected young woman, the narrator grows up in the lush, natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into marriage to the cold-hearted and prideful Rochester, who succumbs to his need for money and his lust.
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Yet he will make her pay for her ancestors' sins of slaveholding, excessive drinking and nihilistic despair by enslaving her as a prisoner in his bleak British home.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Jean Rhys
- First published
- 1966
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9780241951552