Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)

Novel, Historical fiction by Jean Rhys

Blurb

"A considerable tour de force by any standard."―?New York Times Book Review

Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of fiction's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Set in the Caribbean, its heroine is Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Rochester. In this best-selling novel, Rhys portrays a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.

First Published

1966

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