A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early years in Dominica, England and Paris.Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age,...

Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story...

Often considered Jean Rhys's most autobiographical novel, this masterful and moving work follows a chorus girl, Anna, who struggles to adjust to cold and inhospitable England after a childhood in the West Indies. When an affair that at...

"Souriez s'il vous plaît: Une autobiographie inachevée" ist ein unvollendetes autobiografisches Werk von Jean Rhys, einer britischen Schriftstellerin, die vor allem für ihren Roman "Wide Sargasso Sea" bekannt ist. In dieser Autobiografie...

"Quartet" von Jean Rhys ist ein Roman, der in den 1920er Jahren in Paris spielt und sich um das Leben von Marya Zelli dreht. Marya ist eine junge Engländerin, die mit ihrem Ehemann Stephan in Paris lebt. Als Stephan wegen Diebstahls...

"Wide Sargasso Sea" von Jean Rhys ist ein präquell zu Charlotte Brontës Klassiker "Jane Eyre". Es erzählt die Vorgeschichte von Bertha Mason, der sogenannten "verrückten Frau auf dem Dachboden". Die Handlung spielt im 19. Jahrhundert auf...

Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story...

Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics. Born into the...

Twenty titles are being beautifully packaged for a new generation coming to these classics for the first time. Each of the jackets has been designed by artists commissioned from all over the globe. von Rhys, Jean

Specifically designed for readers studying the texts these editions come with an introduction, character sketches, suggested further reading and more. von Rhys, Jean

Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story...

Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story...