Wide Sargasso Sea
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Festland Spanien
- Verlag ALLEN LANE
- ISBN13 9780241951552
- ISBN10 0241951550
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Sammlung GARDNERS #
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2022
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
Themen
English LiteraturWide Sargasso Sea
Editorial ALLEN LANE
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now...Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?'. If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals, unaware that in taking away her identity he is destroying a part of himself as well as pushing her towards madness. Set against the lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica, Jean Rhys' powerful, haunting masterpiece was inspired by her fascination with the first Mrs Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.