num_pages: 171
description: Alternative cover edition for this ISBN: HEREBorn into an oppressive colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage, disturbing rumours begin to circulate, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness.This is a fully annotated edition of Jean Rhys's late literary masterpiece, which was inspired by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s.
language: English
title: Wide Sargasso Sea
titlecomplete: Wide Sargasso Sea
characters: Pierre Cosway, Antoinette Cosway, Annette Cosway, Christophine, Aunt Cora, Richard Mason, Mr Mason, Grace Poole, Edward Rochester, Godfrey, Tia
genres: Fiction, Historical, School, Literature, Classics, Feminism, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 88525
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: -126201600000
name: W.H. Heinemann Award
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd