Wide Sargasso Sea - Brossura

Rhys, Jean

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393308804 ISBN 13: 9780393308808

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996

Riassunto

Beautiful and wealthy Antoinette Cosway's passionate love for an English aristocrat threatens to destroy her idyllic West Indian island existence and her very life

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Product Description:

The fortieth anniversary reissue of the best-selling "tour de force" (Walter Allen, "New York Times Book Review"). Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of fiction's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre," A sensual and protected young woman, Antoinette Cosway grows upin the lush natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold intomarriage to the coldhearted and prideful Rochester, who succumbsto his need for money and his lust. Yet he will make her pay forher ancestors' sins of slaveholding, excessive drinking, and nihilistic despair by enslaving her as a prisoner in his bleak English home. In this best-selling novel Rhys portrays a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393308804
• ISBN 13: 9780393308808
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192