TY - BOOK AU - Rhys,Jean TI - Wide Sargasso sea T2 - Penguin Classics SN - 9780141185422 U1 - 823.912 PY - 2000/// CY - UK PB - Penguin Books KW - British KW - British--West Indies--Fiction KW - West Indies--Fiction N1 - With an afterword by Andrea Ashworth N2 - Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind ER -