Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys is the author of Wide Sargasso Sea and other novels.
Books by Jean Rhys
"It is a book that does not invite comparisons. . . . Its excellence is individual, intrinsic; it measures itself against itself."--Saturday Review of LiteratureMore
"Reading such stories as a group . . . can be overwhelming. Yet it is precisely this intense immersion in experience that is the essence of Rhys' art. The force of her stories lies in the fusion of elegant prose with an uncanny penetration of the darker reaches of the soul."—Washington Post Book WorldMore
"No one who reads Good Morning, Midnight will ever forget it." - New York TimesMore
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.More
Rhys's voice is starkly simple, yet sharp as nails.More
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.More
The fortieth anniversary reissue of the best-selling "tour de force" (Walter Allen, New York Times Book Review).More