Modern Classics Wide Sargasso Sea
Modern Classics Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, published by National Geographic Books on August 29, 2000, is a 224-page edition that explores the life of Antoinette Cosway, a white Creole heiress in 1930s Jamaica. This novel reimagines the story of Bertha Rochester, the ‘madwoman in the attic’ from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, delving into themes of identity and colonialism as Antoinette navigates her tumultuous marriage and societal pressures.
Readers will find a poignant narrative that examines the complexities of love, betrayal, and madness within a colonial context. The book presents Antoinette’s struggles as she grapples with her sense of belonging and the destructive forces surrounding her. This edition includes an introduction and notes by Angela Smith, providing additional insights into Rhys’s work and its significance in the realm of postcolonial literature.
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One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’
‘Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century’ Michele Roberts
Jean Rhys’s masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyre’s ‘madwoman in the attic’, Bertha Rochester.
Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel’s heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys’s brief, beautiful masterpiece.
Edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith
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