Author: Jean Rhy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: novel, sea, sargasso, wide
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1992-08-17
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393308804
ISBN-13: 9780393308808

In 1966 Jean Rhys reemerged after a long silence with a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys had enjoyed minor literary success in the 1920s and ’30s with a series of evocative novels featuring women protagonists adrift in Europe, verging on poverty, hoping to be saved by men. By the ’40s, however, her work was out of fashion, too sad for a world at war. And Rhys herself was often too sad for the world--she was suicidal, alcoholic, troubled by a vast loneliness. She was also a great writer, despite her powerful self-destructive impulses. Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette

Author: Thomas A. Janvier
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: sea, sargasso
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2009-09-14
List price: $13.90
ISBN-10: 1406853429
ISBN-13: 9781406853421

A seafaring adventure first published in 1898.

Authors:Jean Rhys,  Judith L. Raiski,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: critical, norton, sea, sargasso, wide
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1998-11-17
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0393960129
ISBN-13: 9780393960129

In 1966 Jean Rhys reemerged after a long silence with a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys had enjoyed minor literary success in the 1920s and ’30s with a series of evocative novels featuring women protagonists adrift in Europe, verging on poverty, hoping to be saved by men. By the ’40s, however, her work was out of fashion, too sad for a world at war. And Rhys herself was often too sad for the world--she was suicidal, alcoholic, troubled by a vast loneliness. She was also a great writer, despite her powerful self-destructive impulses. Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette