Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys with Anna Bentinck (Narrator)

5 hours, 45 minutes first pub 1966 (view editions) user-added

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For readers drawn to lush, fever-dream fiction about the making of a madwoman and the price of being owned. Ideal if you crave lyrical, slow-burn prose heavy with sensuous decay, colonial ghosts, and the ache of identity eroded by beauty, money, and men’s gazes.

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A prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre' (7377), this is Jean Rhys' story of Antoinette Cosway from the time of her youth in the Caribbean to her unhappy marriage with Mr Rochester and relocation to England. Caught between his demands and her o...

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