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Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Critical Editions) (1998)
by Jean Rhys
No other series of classic texts achieves the editorial standard of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with contextual and critical materials that bring the work to life for students. Careful editing, first-rate translation, thorough... (learn more about this book)
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Short stories (1987)
by Jean Rhys
This collection rounds out the oeuvre of Rhys, a writer acclaimed for her explication of the female condition. From the highs and lows of her own troubled life, Rhys fashioned stories of women caught in failing relationships, often in lonely rooms in London, Paris or the Caribbean, capturing the... (learn more about this book)
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Letters 1931-1966 (1984)
by Jean Rhys
In her will, Jean Rhys expressed a wish that no biography of her should be written unless authorized during her lifetime. Following her death, her literary executor was approached frequently with requests for permission to write "an official life". Finally he decided that, by compiling a volume... (learn more about this book)
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Tigers are Better-Looking (1974)
With a selection from The Left Bank
by Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys wrote about women and set her stories in Paris, London and the Caribbean. This is a collection of some of Rhys' earliest work as well as a representive selection of her later work. (learn more about this book)
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Quartet (1971)
by Jean Rhys
A woman, caught in the stranglehold between her lover and his wife, faces a further dilemma when her own husband is released from prison. (learn more about this book)
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Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
by Jean Rhys
A sensitive and protected young woman of a land owning wealthy family, Antoinette Cosway grows up in the lush natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into marriage to the cold hearted and prideful Rochester, or rather, he is bought as a husband for her with her expected inheritance being his... (learn more about this book)
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Good Morning, Midnight (1939)
by Jean Rhys
Sasha Jensen has returned to Paris, the city of both her happiest moments and her most desperate. Her past lies in wait for her in cafes, bars, and dress shops, blurring all distinctions between nightmare and reality. When she is picked up by a young man, she begins to feel that she is still... (learn more about this book)
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After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie (1931)
by Jean Rhys
Now leaving her last lover, a once-beautiful woman is running out of luck and chances. A visit to London to see her ailing mother and distrustful sister brings her stark life into full focus. A masterful and terrifying tale from one of the truest voices in 20th-century fiction. (learn more about this book)
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Jean Rhys: The Complete Novels
Voyage in the Dark / Quartet / After Leaving Mr Mackenzie / Good Morning, Midnight / Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
Minimal shelfwear w/scuffed edges and beginning to curl corners only flaw. No markings. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. (learn more about this book)
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Let Them Call it Jazz and Other Stories
by Jean Rhys
This title contains three short stories by Jean Rhys, "Let Them Call it Jazz", "Outside the Machine" and "The Insect World", all of which portray young women alone. (learn more about this book)
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