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Wide Sargasso Sea

by Jean Rhys, Charlotte Bronte

Published: 1999-01

Hardcover: 189 pages

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Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.In ...

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Wide Sargasso Sea

by Jean Rhys

Published: 2010-01-01

Hardcover: 171 pages

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Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester, rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.

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Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin)

by Jean Rhys

Published: 1998-09-03

Paperback: 160 pages

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Set against the lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica, Jean Rhys's powerful, haunting story was inspired by the first Mrs. Rochester, in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality...

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Wide Sargasso Sea (Norton Critical Editions)

by Jean Rhys

Published: 1998-11-17

Paperback: 270 pages

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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. Textual notes illuminate the novel’s historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole...

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Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)

by Jean Rhys

Published: 2001-04-26

Paperback: 176 pages

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Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel

by Jean Rhys

Published: 1992-08-17

Paperback: 176 pages

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"A considerable tour de force by any standard."??New York Times Book ReviewJean Rhys's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of fiction's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlot...

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Wideacre : A Novel

by Philippa Gregory

Published: 2003-07-02

Paperback: 0 pages

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory comes the stunning first novel of a thrilling trilogy about the Lacey family, and the captivating woman at the heart of a power-hungry estate willing to go to any means to protect her family name.Beatrice Lacey, as strong-minded as...

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Wideacre Trilogy Box Set

by Philippa Gregory

Published: 2006-11-14

Paperback: 0 pages

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The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It

by Tilar J. Mazzeo

Published: 2008-11-01

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The story of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire, showed the world how to live with style, and emerged a legend Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour, style, and luxury. But who was this young widow?the Veuve Clicquot?whose champagne sparkled at the courts of Fra...

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A Widow for One Year

by John Irving

Published: 2001-11-27

Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages

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Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman.  By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life.  When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the ...