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Book

Wide Sargasso Sea

Author

Jean Rhys

Call Number

  • FICTION RHYS (CEN, OSH)

Publication Information

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Physical Description

171 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

Inspired by, but independent of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the story of the first Mrs. Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

Antoinette Cosway is a sensual and protected young woman, a Creole heiress in Jamaica. Her stepfather, Mr. Mason, sells her into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester, who renames her Bertha. In England she faces a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind. -- adapted from back cover and perusal of book.

Notes

Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë.

Includes reading group guide.

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