Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140818031
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 0140818030
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: April 26, 2001
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics

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Rating: - Superb and incredibly inventive prequel to Jane Eyre
The Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway/ Bertha Mason, the mad first wife of Mr Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

It tells her story, as the marginalised outsider, and shows how she came to be locked in a grey tower in England, guarded night and day, and despised and feared by her husband, from her childhood roots in the Caribbean.

It is a brilliant book, atmospheric, passionate and political; still as relevant as when it was first written. It ... Read More

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Rating: - A great book that gives in depth view into the mind of "Bertha"
Even thought I didn't enjoy the film too much the book itself is phenomenal. The story of Bertha, the first Mrs. Rochester, "Wide Sargasso Sea" is a not only a brilliant deconstruction of Charlotte Bront's legacy, but is also a damning history of colonialism in the West Indies. This novel addresses the issue of race and culture, but it also addresses the inner thought processes of a woman confronted with cultural chaos between the Creole, Jamaican, and British in the Caribbean.

Told ... Read More

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Rating: - Caribbean then and now
I re-read this upon finding it - along with Phyllis Shand Allfrey's The Orchid House - on a bookshelf a decade after first buying and reading both. They both depict a colonial way of life which has come to an end. Wide Sargasso Sea is quite simply an exquisite portrayal of Jamaica and the other un-named island which the newly-weds travel to and albeit short, a marvellous novel. Jane Eyre was an must for O-level but I never warmed to her, unlike Antoinette, whose story is tragic and still an enigma ... Read More

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Rating: - Mad women in the attic
This is a story from the point of view of the 'mad women' in Jane Eyre. I found it all consuming and couldn't put it down. Don't worry if you haven't read JA it's still a fantastic book and if you are a JA fan, don't feel it will detract from that wonderful novel, as the 2 can be read exclusively of each other. Either way, you will be left wondering, was his wife mad, or did Mr Rochester make her that way?

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Rating: - Makes you think...
Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Charlotte Bronte`s Jane Eyre.
It is a very short book but it is very moving,readable and beautifully written.Jean Rhys uses descriptions about Jamacia which conjer up it`s smells and sights so you feel that you are actually there.
The narrative displacement is easy to keep track of as it is only between Mr Rochester and his mad bride(who is actually called Antoniette by the way).Antoniette is easy to sympathise with especially in the first and final parts ... Read More

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