Wide Sargasso Sea

Informationen zum Autor Jean Rhys Klappentext Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness. Zusammenfassung Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Rhys
• Assisted by: Hilar Jenkins (Editor), Hilary Jenkins (Editor), Jenkins Hilary (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.04.2001
• EAN: 9780140818031
• ISBN: 978-0-14-081803-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Penguin Student Edition; Penguin Student Editions; STUDENT EDNS; Penguin Classics; STUDENT EDNS; Penguin Student Edition
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, English, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Readers, Language readers, ELT Literature & Fiction Readers, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary