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Wide Sargasso Sea ()


Modern Library Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (94)

A prequel to Jane Eyre, it tells the story of how Rochester's first wife went mad.  This book sucked.  I can not imagine how it made the Top 100.  Maybe it's just such a chick book that it's inexplicable to men.

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Grade: (F-)


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Jean Rhys Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: Jean Rhys
    -ESSAY: Jean Rhys’ Women on the Margins: On the Perpetual Resonance of Voyage in the Dark: Imogen Crimp on the Intersection of Ambition, Power, Gender and Money (Imogen Crimp, February 8, 2022, LitHub)
    -REVIEW: of I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys By Miranda Seymour (CLAUDIA FITZHERBERT, Literary Review)
    -REVIEW: of I Used to Live Here (Anna Leszkiewicz, New Statesman)
    -REVIEW: of THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES of Jean Rhys (Gwendoline Riley, TLS)
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Book-related and General Links:
    -ESSAY: Iris Murdoch's Go(o)d (Allen Jacobs, First Things)
    -REVIEW: of Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature. By Iris Murdoch (Alan Jacobs, First Things)