Wide Sargasso Sea
Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.
Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781568497297 (1568497296)
Publish date: July 1st 1999
Publisher: Buccaneer Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Feminism,
Gothic
Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into 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 up in the...
Wow, what a dissapointing read. If it wasn't such a relatively short book, I highly doubt if I would've been able to plough through it. The writing style was very confusing. I kept thinking I had one of those Kindle versions with a shitload amount of spelling errors in it again, but apparently, it's...
The scent that came from the dress was very faint at first, then it grew stronger. The smell of vetivert and frangipanni, of cinnamon and dust and lime trees when they are flowering. The smell of the sun and the smell of the rain.This is a book about what makes human identity – and how to take it aw...
I'm honestly not even sure I understood it. I really liked Christophine because she seemed like the only sane one there. Everyone else just seemed mad.The story jumped a bit and didn't explicitly name the narrator. I felt like I was missing something, but maybe that's because I hadn't read Jane Eyre...
I am sorry to say I simply didn't get this, despite all I have heard and read about it by brilliant people who loved the book. It isn't that I disliked the book, or that I didn't understand the basics of what's going on; it is that on that fundamental level where a reader connects with a book, throu...
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