num_pages: 190
description: Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of fiction's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Set in the Caribbean, its heroine is Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Rochester. In this best-selling novel, Rhys portrays a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.--back cover
language: English
title: Wide Sargasso Sea
titlecomplete: Wide Sargasso Sea
characters: Tia, Grace Poole, Godfrey, Antoinette Cosway, Aunt Cora, Annette Cosway, Christophine, Richard Mason, Pierre Cosway, Edward Rochester, Mr Mason
genres: Historical, Literature, 20th Century, Classics, Feminism, Literary Fiction, Novels, School, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 88536
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: -126201600000
name: W.H. Heinemann Award
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company