Wide Sargasso Sea

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The spell-binding novel that was inspired by Jane Eyre

'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now... Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?'

If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals, unaware that in taking away her identity he is destroying a part of himself as well as pushing her towards madness.

Set against the lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica, Jean Rhys's powerful, haunting masterpiece was inspired by her fascination with the first Mrs Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780241951552
Published: April 2011

Number of pages: 160
Width: 111 mm
Height: 181 mm
Depth: 9 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd