Wide Sargasso Sea
Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780393308808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2016-11-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0241281903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's fiftieth anniversary. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful masterpiece. 'She took one of the works of genius of the nineteenth century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the twentieth century' Michele Roberts, The Times
Wide Sargasso Sea
Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: Norton
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780393352566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th anniversary.
The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys
Author: Elaine Savory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-04-02
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1139478478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial studies among them. This Introduction offers a reliable and stimulating account of her life, work, contexts and critical reception. Her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, is analyzed together with her other novels, including Quartet and After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, and her short stories. Through close readings of the works, Elaine Savory reveals their common themes and connects these to different critical approaches. The book maps Rhys's fictional use of the actual geography of Paris, London and the Caribbean, showing how key understanding her relationships with the metropolitan and colonial spheres is to reading her texts. In this invaluable introduction for students, Savory explains the significance of Rhys as a writer both in her lifetime and today.
Good Morning, Midnight
Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780393303940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA woman encounters a life filled with desires and emotions when she returns to Paris after suffering from a bout of depression and alcoholism in London.
Morning in the Burned House
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780395825211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe renowned poet and author of The Handmaid's Tale "brings a swift, powerful energy" to this "intimate and immediate" poetry collection (Publishers Weekly). These beautifully crafted poems -- by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate -- make up Margaret Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering to date, setting foot on the middle ground / between body and word. Some draw on history, some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, more personal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death, especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous, searing, compassionate, and disturbing, this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday, between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.
The Ruin of a Rake
Author: Cat Sebastian
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-07-04
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0062642529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 2017 RT Reviewer's Choice Nominee for Best Digital Historical! One of Goodreads' Best Romances of July A RT Book Review Top Pick! “Sebastian proves she is a new force to be reckoned with in historical romances.”—Booklist Rogue. Libertine. Rake. Lord Courtenay has been called many things and has never much cared. But after the publication of a salacious novel supposedly based on his exploits, he finds himself shunned from society. Unable to see his nephew, he is willing to do anything to improve his reputation, even if that means spending time with the most proper man in London. Julian Medlock has spent years becoming the epitome of correct behavior. As far as he cares, if Courtenay finds himself in hot water, it’s his own fault for behaving so badly—and being so blasted irresistible. But when Julian’s sister asks him to rehabilitate Courtenay’s image, Julian is forced to spend time with the man he loathes—and lusts after—most. As Courtenay begins to yearn for a love he fears he doesn’t deserve, Julian starts to understand how desire can drive a man to abandon all sense of propriety. But he has secrets he’s determined to keep, because if the truth came out, it would ruin everyone he loves. Together, they must decide what they’re willing to risk for love.
Dinosaurs on Other Planets
Author: Danielle McLaughlin
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0812998421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In a raw seacoast cabin, a young woman watches her boyfriend go out with his brother, late one night, on a mysterious job she realizes she isn t supposed to know about. A man gets a call at work from his sister-in-law, saying that his wife and his daughter never made it to nursery school that day. A mother learns that her teenage daughter has told a teacher about problems in her parents marriage that were meant to be private problems the mother herself tries to ignore. McLaughlin conveys these characters so vividly that readers will feel they are experiencing real life. Often the stories turn on a single, fantastic moment of clarity after which nothing can be the same."--
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780393315479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJulia Martin is in Paris and at the end of her rope. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after being dropped by her latest lover, she visits London to see her ailing mother and meets up with her distrustful sister, Norah. This is a haunting picture of two desperate women in a desperate predicament.
Wide Sargasso Sea at 50
Author: Elaine Savory
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-11-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 3030282236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book revisits Jean Rhys’s ground-breaking 1966 novel to explore its cultural and artistic influence in the areas of not only literature and literary criticism, but fashion design, visual art, and the theatre as well. Building on symposia that were held in London and New York in 2016 in honour of the novel’s half-century, this collection demonstrates just how timely Rhys’s insights into colonial history, sexual relations, and aesthetics continue to be. The chapters include an extensive interview with novelist Caryl Phillips, who in 2018 published a novel about Rhys’s life, an account of how Wide Sargasso Sea can be read through the lens of the #MeToo Movement, a clothing line inspired by the novel, and new critical directions. As both a celebration and scholarly evaluation, the collection shows how enduring Rhys’s novel is in its continuing literary influence and social commentary.
