Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys ; introduction by Francis Wyndham.
Contributors: Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Edition: Movie Tie-In Edition (1)
Series: Norton Paperback Fiction
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780393310481
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: British -- West Indies -- Fiction.; West Indies -- Fiction.
Description: Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of citsion's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". 

A sensual and protected young woman, the narrator grows up in the lush, natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into marriage to the cold-hearted and prideful Rochester, who succumbs to his need for money and his lust. Yet he will make her pay for her ancestors' sins of slaveholding, excessive drinking and nihilistic despair by enslaving her as a prisoner in his bleak British home.
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Notes: Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë.