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»En av 1900-talets 100 bästa engelskspråkiga romaner.« | Time Magazine»Det är ett verk som skakat om och förändrat perspektivet. En svindlande läsupplevelse.« | Maria Ehrenberg, …

Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born …

Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set...Set in a 1930s Paris of shabby hotel rooms, seedy bars and drunken …

'A wonderful bitter-sweet book, written with disarming simplicity' Esther Freud'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen …

»Det är en fantastisk roman, som tiden nu äntligen har kommit ikapp.« | Björn Kohlström, Jönköpings-Posten»God morgon, midnatt! är helt enkelt en briljant skildring av ångest, av …

New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea.Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, …

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose …

Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight is an unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determinationIn 1930s Paris, where one …

Nowhere is Jean Rhys's talent for fully inhabiting the minds of her characters more apparent than in After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, her masterful second novel. Rhys lays bare the …

Sargassohavet utspelar sig i det tidiga 1800-talets Västindien, mitt i den förrädiska naturens överdådiga grönska. Antoinette Cosway gifter sig med den unge engelsmannen Edward …

The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of …

'I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl - all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws'In stories that span the course of a lifetime - from childhood in the Caribbean to …