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Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin) by Rhys, Jean is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin) about?
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.
Who reads Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Rhys, Jean
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
- Published
- 1968
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780445002517
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.57 / 5 (21,120 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel (1992)
- Ancho Mar De Los Sargazos (1990)
- The wide Sargasso Sea (2001)
- Wide Sargasso Sea (2001)
- Our man in Havana : an entertainment (1971)
- Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel (2001)
- Wide Sargasso Sea (Modern Classics) (1968)
- Our man in Havana : an entertainment (1979)
- Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Clothbound Classics) (1966)
- Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel (1966)
- Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Critical Editions) (1998)
- Wide Sargasso Sea (1992)
- Penguin Student Edition Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions) (1966)
- Ancho mar de los Sargazos [3263] (1998)
- Modern Classics Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics) (1993)
- Wide Sargasso Sea (1982)
- Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
- WIDE SARGASSO SEA BACKGROUNDS CRITICISM Jean Rhys (2001)
- Ancho Mar De Los Sargazos (1989)
- Ancho Mar De Los Sargazos (2009)
- Modern Classics Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics) (1968)
- WIDE SARGASSO SEA BACKGROUNDS CRITICISM Jean Rhys (1998)
- Penguin Essentials Wide Sargasso Sea (2011)
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