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Wide Sargasso Sea
by RHYS, Jean
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
RHYS, Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea
World Books, London, 1967, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg, boards red/gilt, 188 pp.
Boards clean and firm, gentle rubs to spine head and tail, two small impact marks to rear top edge, lightly sunned in places, neat inscription to front free end paper, no annotations, sound square binding, pages clean, lightly tanned. Wrapper clean and clean, rubs to edges and corners, bumps to top edge of back panel in addition to two pale marks, light abrasions to spine strip, 0.5cm split to back top fore-edge corner. Lovely tidy copy.
FICTION, COLLECTABLE, JEAN RHYS, WIDE SARGASSO SEA, BERTHA COSWAY, JANE EYRE, , FEMINIST PREQUEL
46670 FIC/COLL/R £25.50
Synopsis
Wide Sargasso Sea, first published in 1966, is the book for which author Jean Rhys is most known. The feminist and postcolonial novel, which explores power dynamics between men and women in a patriarchal society, was Jean Rhys's brilliant comeback to the literary stage after over a 20-year absence. Following the publication of Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys produced several more novels, short stories, and other manuscripts before her death in 1979. Wide Sargasso Sea was written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, from the point of view of Antoinette Cosway, Mr. Rochester’s wife. A Creole heiress from Jamaica, Antoinette’s life story is revealed in three parts–the first focusing on her youth in Jamaica, the second her honeymoon with Mr. Rochester in Dominica, and the third and final focusing on the time she is confined in the attic of Mr. Rochester’s house in England after he declares her mad. The tension Rhys builds between the two prominent cultures and the two prominent characters in her novel creates a poignant and plaintive atmosphere that haunts readers’ minds.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Daisyroots Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46670
- Title
- Wide Sargasso Sea
- Author
- RHYS, Jean
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- World Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1967
- Pages
- 188 pp.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FICTION, COLLECTABLE, JEAN RHYS, WIDE SARGASSO SEA, BERTHA COSWAY, JANE EYRE, FEMINIST PREQUEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION Collectable; LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
Daisyroots Books Ltd
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Daisyroots Books Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Grange over Sands, Cumbria
About Daisyroots Books Ltd
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- Edges
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- Sunned
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- Spine Strip
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- VG/VG
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- Spine
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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