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Prequel to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty, but soon after their marriage, rumors of madness in her family poison his mind against her. He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals.
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Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
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- Released
- 1987
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- Title
- Wide Sargasso Sea
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jean Rhys
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1987
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN10
- 0140089128
- ISBN13
- 9780140089127
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Classics, England, Feminism, Marriage, Prehistoric and ancient times, Race, Racism, Childhood, Loneliness, Colonialism, Caribbean, Madness, Jamaica
- First published
- 1966
- Original title
- Wide Sargasso Sea
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- Prequel to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty, but soon after their marriage, rumors of madness in her family poison his mind against her. He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals.