Voyage in the Dark

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London.

Product details

• Authors: Carole Angier, Jean Rhys
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.08.2000
• EAN: 9780141183954
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118395-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, c 1910 to c 1919, Classic fiction: general and literary