Wide Sargasso Sea

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• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

  In the late eighteen thirties the father of an English gentleman conspires to marry him off to a landed Jamaican Creole as a means of giving his second son an estate and stopping him being a burden on the family. Written in the nineteen sixties, Wide ... (read full critics)

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• The Wide Sargasso Sea

  The Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys W.W. Norton Paperback 192 pages August 1992 This mid-nineteenth century saga evokes time and place perfectly, haunting and resonant the almost hallucinatory beauty of a remote Caribbean island near Jamaica. Surrounded ... (read full critics)

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  Interesting

  I read this book as part of a English Literature class. I wouldn't have bought it (or read it) on my own, but I found it quite interesting. I would recommend it to all Jane Eyre fans, and to those who appreciate modern literature.

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  One of my favourite books

  It is very short and lucid. The preface is great and I recommend reading before the novel so you have a sense of what to look for in the narrative. It is hard to imagine that this book emerged from the writer's mass of scribblings stuffed under her bed, but it is brilliant - a must-read. I thank Dr. ... (continue)

  It is very short and lucid. The preface is great and I recommend reading before the novel so you have a sense of what to look for in the narrative. It is hard to imagine that this book emerged from the writer's mass of scribblings stuffed under her bed, but it is brilliant - a must-read. I thank Dr. Stephan Ross at UVic for recommending it to me back in 2000/01.

  It touches on some very deep human themes: love, sexuality, power, race, and madness.

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  It is a must-read for lovers of Jane Eyre.

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  myself0826 said on Nov 28, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  I found the reading of the book amazing. The whole story narrated by the silenced, enslaved, colonised mad woman's perspective. The style is crude, cynical in the account of the characters' lives and own petty interests. I really appreciate this book even not having read Jane Eyre.

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  AnnaLuce said on Jan 26, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  re-read this short but brilliant and disturbing book. Rich and heavy it adds dimension to 'the mad woman' in the attic, who in Jane Eyre is just accepted unquestioningly..

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• English Books
• Paperback 192 Pages
• Edition: Reissue
• ISBN-10: 0393308804
• ISBN-13: 9780393308808
• Publisher: W. W. Norton
• Pub date: Aug 19, 1992
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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