Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys
Books by Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea: A Norton Critical Edition
First Edition, Paperback, 1999
Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839–45.
The Collected Short Stories
Paperback, 1990
"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. The force of her stories lies in the fusion of...
Quartet
Paperback, 1999
The story of a woman on the edge caught in the stranglehold between her lover and his wife. When her husband is released from prison, the situation explodes.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Paperback, 2016
This “tour de force” (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Good Morning, Midnight
Paperback, 2020
“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”— Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your Duck Is My Duck
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Paperback, 2020
“Lucid, exact, and swift.… An essential part of the [Rhys] record.” —V. S. Naipaul, New York Review of Books
Voyage in the Dark: A Novel
Paperback, 2023
“Prescient and technically astonishing.” —Geoff Dyer, GQ
Quartet: A Novel
Paperback, 2020
“[Quartet’s] abiding power arises from [Jean Rhys’s] ability to convey the complex vectors of desire and repulsion that move between the characters, distorted by the intractable demands of...