Wide Sargasso Sea

✍ Scribed by Jean Rhys

• Book ID: 112115467
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 1966
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 51 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780393352566

✦ Synopsis

*Wide Sargasso Sea* , a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With *Wide Sargasso Sea* , her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s *Jane Eyre*. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.
A new introduction by the award-winning Edwidge Danticat, author most recently of *Claire of the Sea Light* , expresses the enduring importance of this work. Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the setting’s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work.