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Modern Classics Quartet
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Modern Classics Quartet Paperback - 2000

by Jean Rhys; Foreword by Katie Owen

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Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, QUARTET is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms with mauve- flowered wallpaper, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality of her surroundings. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she is taken up by an English couple who slowly overwhelm her with their passions. Jean Rhys's first novel is both poignant anddisturbingly intimate in its vivid depiction of a woman on her own.

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  • Title Modern Classics Quartet
  • Author Jean Rhys; Foreword by Katie Owen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Publication date August 3, 2000
  • ISBN 9780141183923 / 0141183926
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumstances over a long period. Rhys died in 1979.

Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she made a sensational comeback with her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, written in difficult circumstances over a long period. Rhys died in 1979.

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