Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Critical Edition) by Jean Rhys, Judith L. Raiskin
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- ISBN: 0393960129
- Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
- Pub. Date: November 1998
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Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839-45.
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Jean Rhys is the author of Wide Sargasso Sea and other novels.
Judith L. Raiskin is Associate Professor and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Snow on the Cane Fields: Women's Writing and Creole Subjectivity.
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Short and sweet....by Anonymous
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08/07/2009: I enjoyed this book mainly because I read Jane Eyre right before it. It gives an interesting perspective to Bronte's book! I did find myself frustrated about details that seemed to be missing, and the jumping around of who was narrating. I am thankful it was short so I was done quickly!
An interesting twist on Jane Eyreby Anonymous
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07/06/2009: Jane Eyre is my favorite novel and Charlotte Bronte is my favorite author, so when I realized that someone attempted to write a prequel to this novel, I was instantly interested. Rhys stream of consciouness and alteration of the original story keep it from getting 5 stars, but if the story is considered on its own, it is interesting. Antoinette (Bertha) becomes a real person, instead of the lunatic from Jane Eyre, and the novel itself is an interesting concept. I would not recommend this novel to someone who cannot understand stream of consciousness.
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