jean rhys

De niet eerder vertaalde verzamelde verhalen van Jean Rhys vormen een duizelingwekkende en sprankelende collectie van een van de grote schrijvers van

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean.

Begin negentiende eeuw trouwt de rijke creoolse erfgename Antoinette Cosway met de Engelse Mr. Rochester. Samen vertrekken ze van Dominica naar Engela

In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and

Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and

Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her in

Jean aimait rire de la mort. Il se moquait de l'embarras des survivants. "Je vous préviens : je n'irai pas à votre enterrement" , et il éclatait de ce

Tragédie en prose créée à Paris en 1944 au Théâtre de l'Atelier dans la mise en scène d'André BARSACQ. Avec ANTIGONE, Jean ANOUILH connait un triomphe

«Je ne suis pas Jacques Renaud ; je ne reconnais rien ici de ce qui a été à lui. Un moment, oui, en vous écoutant parler, je me suis confondu avec lui

Often considered Jean Rhys's most autobiographical novel, this masterful and moving work follows a chorus girl, Anna, who struggles to adjust to cold

"Reading such stories as a group . . . can be overwhelming. Yet it is precisely this intense immersion in experience that is the essence of Rhys' art.

Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in

For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides t

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

'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

A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early ye

Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica an

If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englis