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Author Rhys, Jean, author

Title Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys ; introduction by Francis Wyndham
Published London : World Books, 1967
New York : Popular Library, [1966]
©1966

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 W'PONDS  820.912 R4799 A6/W  AVAILABLE
Description 190 pages ; 18 cm
Summary 'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now...Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?'. If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals, unaware that in taking away her identity he is destroying a part of himself as well as pushing her towards madness
Subject Man-woman relationships -- West Indies -- Fiction.
SUBJECT West Indies, British http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146203 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Novels.
Author Wyndham, Francis, author of introduction, etc
LC no. 67015822
ISBN 0140183485
0140274219
9780140183481
9780140274219