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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Charlotte Bronte |
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Professional Reviews
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Alvarez, A., New York Times Book Review: "[T]he final triumph of Miss Rhys's stylistic control....Despite the exotic setting and the famous, abused heroine, there is no melodrama. Her prose is reticent, unemphatic, precise, and yet supple, alive with feeling....The purity of Miss Rhys's style and her ability to be at once deadly serious and offhand make her books peculiarly timeless." |
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Format: Hardcover, 189
Publisher: Buccaneer Books (January 01, 1999)
Measurements: 9"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.75 lbs.
ISBN: 9781568497297 |
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They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. But we were not in their ranks. |
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This novel declares itself to be the history of Mr. Rochester's first wife--the madwoman in the attic in JANE EYRE, described by Charlotte Bront? only as "a Creole heiress." Rhys was obsessed for years with the first Mrs. Rochester, and finally felt compelled to do justice to the figure to whom Bront? gave such short shrift. Rhys herself was torn between the disparate elements of her own background: her father was a Welsh doctor, her mother a white Creole from Dominica in the Caribbean. As a teenager, Rhys moved to England and also lived in Paris, but in WIDE SARGASSO SEA she recreates the world of her childhood. Appearing in 1966--27 years after her previous book--the novel is notable not only because of its vivid setting and "prequel" status, but because it takes a hard look at a patriarchal system in which Mr. Rochester is not the redeemable romantic hero he is in JANE EYRE, but a harsh master whose cruelty to his "mad" Creole wife mirrors the destructive effects of British colonialism. |
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