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Wide Sargasso Sea

BuchPaperback
Verkaufsrang558inEnglish Books Diverses
CHF16.90

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Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte'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.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-081803-1
ProduktartBuch
EinbandPaperback
FormatB-Format Paperback (UK)
Erscheinungsdatum28.11.2006
Seiten192 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 129 mm, Höhe 198 mm, Dicke 11 mm
Gewicht145 g
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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.

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