01766cam a2200325 i 4500 2233399448 TxAuBib 20250514120000.0 151218s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015050323 9780393352566 pbk. 0393352560 pbk. TxAuBib rda Rhys, Jean, author. Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys ; introduction by Edwidge Danticat. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016] pages cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte·. AP ENGLISH 2025 SUMMER READING LIST. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhyss return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fictions most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronts Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind. 20250519. British West Indies Fiction. West Indies Fiction. Historical fiction. fast Romance fiction. lcgft Bronte·, Charlotte, 1816-1855.