| 1. |  | The Collected Short Stories (Norton Paperback Fiction) from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $9.94 Customer Review:  Drawing from mundane incidents, Rhys's stories are told with a tone that is unsentamental and often detached. Yet her eye for detail, and in particular, character is unmatched. From everyday events she is able to create striking and realistic character portraits as witnessed in among others "Tout... |
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| 2. |  | Jean Rhys: The Complete Novels (Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, Good Morning, Midnight, Wide Sargasso Sea) from W W Norton & Co Inc Price: $25.00 Customer Review:  Jean Rhys' novels (based on her life and including the classic 'Wide Sargasso Sea') are superbly written with an intense pathos, revealing the hardships single women experienced in Europe in the early 20th Century; loneliness, reliance on brief sexual relationships with various men for their living,... |
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| 3. |  | Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions) from Penguin Classics Price: $5.37 Customer Review: This short book is beautifully written, with fully drawn characters in an historical, social context. Very sad, though. |
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| 4. |  | Voyage in the Dark (Norton Paperback Fiction) from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $6.50 Customer Review:  Eighteen year old Anna is sent to England from a life in Dominica after her father dies. She becomes a chorus girl, then a "kept" woman. Her life is extremely dreary, as Anna is neither valued as a woman in these times, nor does she seem able to care about herself . The characters are all as cold... |
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| 5. |  | Quartet (Norton Paperback Fiction) from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $7.54 Customer Review: Jean Rhys's first four novels are sequential, slightly fictionalized confessions of her own sad, sordid life. Here's what I wrote about the first novel, Voyage in the Dark: [A stern warning to my teenage son: Stay clear of wistful waifs who exude sexy depression and masochistic neediness,... |
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| 6. |  | After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (Norton Paperback Fiction) from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $5.99 Customer Review: While there are myriad reasons to admire this extraordinary work, I think the quality that stands out the most for me is the fluidity with which the author delves into all the characters' points of view ... while Julia is the nominal heroine of the book, the reader sees through nearly every... |
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| 7. |  | Good Morning, Midnight from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $7.99 Customer Review: I think the reader has to be in the right frame of mind to appreciate this novel. It's short, it's not complicated . . . but it can be tough sledding, because it feels like reading the journal of an acute depressive -- and that doesn't automatically make for a pleasurable reading experience. |
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| 8. |  | Jean Rhys: Letters 1931-1966 (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) from Penguin Classics | |
| 9. |  | Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin) from Penguin Books Ltd Price: $7.69 | |
| 10. |  | Wide Sargasso Sea from Buccaneer Books Price: $18.20 Customer Review:  Excellently written, but with the outcome already known, this book shows the nightmarish life of Antoinetta "Berthe" Mason, Edward Rochester's doomed bride. Rochester himself is a doomed soul, as he has no idea of how to deal with the brightly colored tragedy of his early marriage. Antoinetta needs... |
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