Bien mirado, la vida de Jean Rhys fue un catálogo del desamor y ese dolor, esa espera angustiosa del amado y la desolación que sigue al abandono son el tema principal de las cuatro novelas cortas que componen este volumen.
Antoinette Cosway busca crear un mundo propio, a medias entre los modales distinguidos de su familia británica y las misteriosas vidas de los isleños jamaicanos. Un joven inglés se casa con ella, pero después del matrimonio...
\"Una sonrisa, por favor. No te pongas tan seria.\" pedía el fotógrafo a la pequeña Jane cuando la chiquilla tenía seis años y tuvo que posar para una foto de familia. Esto sucedía en 1896 en la Dominica,...
La Sasha Jansen és una anglesa de mitjana edat que torna a París el 1938 després d?una llarga absència i allà s?enfronta als pensaments i les emocions que li desperta la ciutat on va estimar; tot li recorda que ja no...
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Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea , inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
Julia Martin is at the end of her rope in Paris. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after leaving her lover, she is running out of luck. A visit to London to see her ailing mother and distrustful sister bring her stark life into full focus....
'Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century' Michele Roberts
'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde...
Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, QUARTET is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms with mauve- flowered wallpaper, Marya tries to make something...