Wide Sargasso Sea - Norton Critical Edition New edition

Brief Description: Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bront'e. Marc Notes: Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-266). Publisher Marketing: A sensual and protected young woman, Antoinette Cosway grows up in the lush, natural world of the Caribbean. She is sold into marriage to the coldhearted and prideful Rochester, who succumbs to his need for money and his lust. Yet he will make her pay for her ancestors' sins of slaveholding, excessive drinking, and nihilistic despair by enslaving her as a prisoner in his black British home. Publisher Marketing: Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bront'e." Review Citations:

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2000 pg. 558 (EAN 9781568497297, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 768 (EAN 9780393308808, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Rhys, Jean Jean Rhys is the author of Wide Sargasso Sea and other novels.