by Jean Rhys · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780393000566
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«Wide Sargasso Sea» is the novel by Jean Rhys, published by W. W. Norton & Company in paperback (190 pages, in English).
Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress raised in colonial Jamaica, sees her life marked by prejudice and a marriage to a young Englishman who, influenced by rumours of madness in her family, turns against her and subjects her to Victorian ideals. A prequel to Jane Eyre that gives voice to the woman in the attic.
Work originally published in 1966, winner of the WH Smith Literary Award in 1967 and the W. H. Heinemann Award in 1966.
For reading groups and readers of classics who want to discover the origin of the madwoman in the attic of Jane Eyre.
Jean Rhys was a British Creole novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her final novel, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
