Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2001
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-081803-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.4.2001
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Student Edition
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	145 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-14-081803-0 / 0140818030
ISBN-13	978-0-14-081803-1 / 9780140818031
Zustand	Neuware