Wide Sargasso Sea

✍ Scribed by Jean Rhys; Francis Wyndham

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Edition: Paperback (repr. of 1982 ed.)
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The fortieth anniversary reissue of the best-selling "tour de force" (Walter Allen, 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 Bront?'s Jane Eyre. A sensual and protected young woman, Antoinette Cosway grows up in the lush natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into marriage to the coldhearted and prideful Rochester, who succumbs to his need for money and his lust. 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 English home.   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.

✦ Table of Contents

Wide Sargasso Sea......Page 3.djvu
ISBN 9780393308808......Page 4.djvu
Introduction......Page 5.djvu
Part One......Page 13.djvu
Part Two......Page 57.djvu
Part Three......Page 157.djvu
Guide......Page 173.djvu