Great. I bought this for fifty cents at a used book store. There were three copies but I didn't like the cover of the other two because it had some scene from a movie adaptation; some woman being ravished like you see on romance novels. I get home and start looking at it and there is a picture of...
I like the idea of this book—it being the story of Mr. Rochester's (Jane Eyre) mad wife—but I am not a fan of the story itself. I felt almost uncomfortable reading the story, and the way it was written was hard for me to follow.I do feel for Antoinette; she really came by her crazy naturally. But I ...
I first read Jane Eyre when I was about 7 or 8, I think - the Readers Digest "Best Loved Books" condensed version - and have read it repeatedly since (not to mention Jasper Ffordes' The Eyre Affair and its sequels), as well as watching several movie versions of the story... And through it all, I'm a...
Jean Rhys created out of Bertha Mason, the proverbial madwoman-in-the-attic, Antoinette Cosway, a bright and tragic Creole girl. 'Wide Sargasso Sea' is a very slim book, something I’d forgotten after becoming used to seeing the fattish spine of my Norton edition, and also because so much is accompli...
I'm a big fan of the Bronte sisters, with their tragic heroes and dark mysteries. This is what led me to picking up Wide Sargasso Sea, a 1966 offering by Jean Rhys that imagines the story that led to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.::: The Premise :::In Rhys' version of events, Rochester's mad wife is ...
While ostensibly telling the backstory for Mr. Rochester and his first wife, the madwoman in the attic, this novel is about as far from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre as you can get. The latter is definitely a product of it's era, fitting the mold of a 19th century novel to a tee. Jean Rhys history ...
Wide Sargasso Sea, published over 200 years after Jane Eyre is a prequel to the classic. It is the life of Antoinette Mason - the mad Mrs. Rochester who is hidden in the attic in Jane Eyre. Told through the eyes of both Antoinette and Mr. Rochester, it covers Antoinette's youth through her captivi...
Excerpt from Linus's Blanket - Rhys is a thought provoking and insightful writer. She puts the truth of people and their situations into her colorful characters and their dialogue, and lets her readers draw their own conclusions. It’s not a happy book, and if you’ve read Jane Eyre you don’t go int...
This is one of my favorite follow-up books to a classic. IMO, authors who usually try to venture into that arena fail miserably. I think Rhys succeeded in authoring a book that was as deep, dark and sensual as Jane Eyre.
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