{"product_id":"9780141182858","title":"Wide Sargasso Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJane Eyre's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWide Sargasso Sea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful masterpiece.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica. Coming to England aged 16, she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris, where she began writing and was 'discovered' by Ford Madox Ford. Her novels, often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities, were ahead of their time and only modestly successful. From 1939 (when \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGood Morning, Midnight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was written) onwards she lived reclusively, and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJane Eyre's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Bertha Rochester, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWide Sargasso Sea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in 1966.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Times","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51110833389814,"sku":"9780141182858","price":57.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8050\/3286\/files\/91TlWVRK8pL._SL1500.jpg?v=1782883773","url":"https:\/\/shop.litbooks.com.my\/products\/9780141182858","provider":"Lit Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}