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After Leaving Mr. Mackenzieby Jean RhysISBN 0060135344 (0-06-013534-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Good Morning, Midnightby Jean RhysISBN 0141183934 (0-14-118393-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Jean Rhys Letters, 1931-1966by Jean Rhys , Francis Wyndham, Diana MellyISBN 0233975675 (0-233-97567-5)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Let Them Call It Jazzby Jean RhysISBN 0146000595 (0-14-600059-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Them Call It Jazz'Book summary: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. [via]
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Letters 1931-1966by Jean Rhys , Francis Wyndham, Diana MellyISBN 0140189068 (0-14-018906-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters 1931-1966'Book summary: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 of letters, authentic biographical information would be provided. But as the collection grew, the biographical aspect took on a secondary importance as the self-portrait began to reveal the turbulent process of literary creation. The final result is a portrait spanning the years 1931 (taking up the story roughly where it was left in "Smile Please") to 1966, when the long struggle to finish "Wide Sargasso Sea" was over. [via]
Quartetby Jean Rhys , Katie OwenISBN 0141183926 (0-14-118392-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quartet'Book summary:The story of a woman on the edge caught in the stranglehold between her lover and his wife. When her husband is released from prison, the situation explodes.
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Sleep It Off, Ladyby Jean RhysISBN 0140183450 (0-14-018345-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiographyby Jean RhysISBN 0140184058 (0-14-018405-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Tigers Are Better-Lookingby Jean RhysISBN 0140035125 (0-14-003512-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Tigers Are Better-Looking: With a Selection from The Left Bank Storiesby Jean RhysISBN 0140183469 (0-14-018346-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tigers Are Better-Looking: With a Selection from The Left Bank Stories'Book summary: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. [via]
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- Tigers Are Better-Looking: With a Selection from The Left Bank Stories: ISBN 0060135611 (0-06-013561-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Tigers Are Better-Looking: With a Selection from The Left Bank Stories: ISBN 0233959874 (0-233-95987-4)
Hardcover, Deutsch - Tigers Are Better-Looking: With a Selection from The Left Bank Stories: ISBN 0140183469 (0-14-018346-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Tigers Are Better-Looking: With a Selection from The Left Bank Stories: ISBN 0060135611 (0-06-013561-1)
Voyage in the Darkby Jean Rhys , Carole AngierISBN 0141183950 (0-14-118395-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Wide Sargasso Seaby Jean RhysISBN 0140231439 (0-14-023143-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wide Sargasso Sea'Book summary:In 1966 Jean Rhys reemerged after a long silence with a novel called Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys had enjoyed minor literary success in the 1920s and '30s with a series of evocative novels featuring women protagonists adrift in Europe, verging on poverty, hoping to be saved by men. By the '40s, however, her work was out of fashion, too sad for a world at war. And Rhys herself was often too sad for the world--she was suicidal, alcoholic, troubled by a vast loneliness. She was also a great writer, despite her powerful self-destructive impulses.
Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched."
The novel is Rhys's answer to Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontė's book had long haunted her, mostly for the story it did not tell--that of the madwoman in the attic, Rochester's terrible secret. Antoinette is Rhys's imagining of that locked-up woman, who in the end burns up the house and herself. Wide Sargasso Sea follows her voyage into the dark, both from her point of view and Rochester's. It is a voyage charged with soul-destroying lust. "I watched her die many times," observes the new husband. "In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty."
Rhys struggled over the book, enduring rejections and revisions, wrestling to bring this ruined woman out of the ashes. The slim volume was finally published when she was 70 years old. The critical adulation that followed, she said, "has come too late." Jean Rhys died a few years later, but with Wide Sargasso Sea she left behind a great legacy, a work of strange, scary loveliness. There has not been a book like it before or since. Believe me, I've been searching. --Emily White [via]
More editions of Wide Sargasso Sea:
- Wide Sargasso Sea: ISBN 0140274219 (0-14-027421-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Wide Sargasso Sea: ISBN 0141182857 (0-14-118285-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Wide Sargasso Sea: ISBN 0140028781 (0-14-002878-1)
Hardcover, Penguin - Wide Sargasso Sea: ISBN 0140231439 (0-14-023143-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
- Wide Sargasso Sea: ISBN 0140274219 (0-14-027421-9)
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