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Wide Sargasso Sea
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Wide Sargasso Sea - 2000

by Rhys, Jean

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  • Title Wide Sargasso Sea
  • Author Rhys, Jean
  • Binding
  • Edition International Ed
  • Condition Used - Very Good +
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin, London
  • Date 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 128445
  • ISBN 9780141185422 / 0141185422
  • Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.3 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 0.76 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About this book

Wide Sargasso Sea, first published in 1966, is the book for which author Jean Rhys is most known. The feminist and postcolonial novel, which explores power dynamics between men and women in a patriarchal society, was Jean Rhys's brilliant comeback to the literary stage after over a 20-year absence. Following the publication of Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys produced several more novels, short stories, and other manuscripts before her death in 1979. Wide Sargasso Sea was written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, from the point of view of Antoinette Cosway, Mr. Rochester’s wife. A Creole heiress from Jamaica, Antoinette’s life story is revealed in three parts–the first focusing on her youth in Jamaica, the second her honeymoon with Mr. Rochester in Dominica, and the third and final focusing on the time she is confined in the attic of Mr. Rochester’s house in England after he declares her mad. The tension Rhys builds between the two prominent cultures and the two prominent characters in her novel creates a poignant and plaintive atmosphere that haunts readers’ minds.

First Edition Identification

The first edition of Wide Sargasso Sea was published in English in 1966 by André Deutsch in London. The format of the first edition is hardcover, and the jacket art was completed by artist Eric Thomas.

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About the author

Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumstances over a long period. Rhys died in 1979.

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