Поздний литературный шедевр Джин Рис "Антуанетта" был вдохновлен "Джейн Эйр" Шарлотты Бронте, и действие его разворачивается в пышных, манящих пейзажах Ямайки 1830-х годов. Родившаяся в деспотичном колониальном обществе, креольская наследница Антуанетта Косуэй встречает молодого англичанина, которого привлекают ее невинная чувственность и красота. После их свадьбы начинаются слухи, настраивающие ее мужа против нее. Оказавшись зажатой между его требованиями и собственным неустойчивым чувством принадлежности, Антуанетта близка к безумию • Книга на английском языке • A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean • 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
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Jean Rhys's masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester • Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful masterpiece
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A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's fiftieth anniversary • Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful masterpiece
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"Доброе утро, полночь" Джин Рис - незабываемый портрет женщины, мужественно преодолевающей одиночество и отчаяние в своем стремлении к самоопределению • В Париже 1930-х годов, где один дешевый гостиничный номер очень похож на другой, молодая женщина учит себя безразличию. Она избежала личной трагедии и приехала во Францию, чтобы набраться мужества и стремиться к независимости. Она говорит себе, что ничего не следует ожидать, особенно доброты, и меньше всего от мужчин. Завтра, решает она, она перекрасит свои волосы в блондинку. Джин Рис была талантом своего времени, обладавшим впечатляющей способностью выражать страдания молодых женщин. В этом романе Рис создала ярко выраженный современный портрет Софии Янсен, чье освобождение оказалось гораздо более болезненным и сложным, чем она могла ожидать, но чье признание пронизано торжеством и восторгом
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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, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by her own, painful memories: of cheap hotels and drab Parisian cafes; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities, always on the periphery and always perilously close to the abyss. Rendered in extraordinarily vivid, honest prose, these stories show Rhys at the height of her literary powers and offer a fascinating counterpoint to her most famous novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. This volume includes all the stories from her three collections,The Left Bank (1927), Tigers Are Better-Looking (1968) and Sleep It Off, Lady (1976)
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A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early years in Dominica, England and Paris • Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, now the celebrated author of Wide Sargasso Sea but still haunted by memories of her troubled past: her precarious jobs on chorus lines and relationships with unsuitable men, her enduring sense of isolation and her decision at last to become a writer. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time in England, living in bedsits on gin and little else, to Paris with her first husband, this is a lasting memorial to a unique artist
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A brilliant, yet brutal, portrait of a woman struggling to retrieve both life and love, from the author of Wide Sargasso Sea • 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 to leave France and return to London. The tale of her ten day visit contains some of Jean Rhys's most sensitive, poignant writing. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she really wants - love
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Jean Rhys's first novel, a heartbreaking and disturbingly intimate portrayal of an isolated woman in Paris • 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 substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality of her surroundings. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she is taken up by an English couple who slowly overwhelm her with their passions
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'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 of Edwardian London. But there, dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness, she is absolutely alone and unconsciously floating from innocence to harsh experience. Her childish dreams have been replaced by harsh reality. Voyage in the Dark was first published in 1934, but it could have been written today. It is the story of an unhappy love affair, a portrait of a hypocritical society, and an exploration of exile and breakdown; all written in Jean Rhys's hauntingly simple and beautiful style
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The Silent Sea is the gripping seventh novel in Clive Cussler's Oregon Files series • December, 1941. Four brothers investigate the secrets of a treasure pit on a small island in the Pacific. But a sudden death and the coming war allow its secrets to lie forgotten • Present day. Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon team have been sent to locate the remains of a crashed NASA satellite in the Argentine jungle. Coming under attack, they make a mysterious discovery which sends them to a small Pacific island. There, they will discover the deadly secrets of an ancient Chinese expedition - by the lost ship The Silent Sea. Now Cabrillo and his team are in a race against time to find the remains of The Silent Sea. Because there will be terrible consequences if someone else finds it first
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Kurt and his crew are in a deadly race against time to stop the sea rising. A mission deep inside the swirling Pacific. Their objective? To save the world • The world's sea levels are rising at an alarming rate. So fast that nobody can explain it • It's up to Kurt and the NUMA team to find out why, before it's too late • Their search for answers sends them racing around the world, from the high-tech streets of Tokyo, to a forbidden secret island • But it's in the East China Sea that they discover a secret underwater mining operation, and a plot more dangerous than they could have ever imagined • The world is drowning and fast - but has Kurt Austin arrived in time to save the day?
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They say the Hollow Sea is cursed. A wild expanse separating the remote islands of St Hia, not even the locals brave its treacherous waters • But new arrival Scottie feels a pull she can't ignore. Because behind the curse is the legend of Thordis: a woman whose story feels eerily familiar. No one knows what became of her, but Scottie believes Thordis's fate may answer questions about her own past • Despite the islanders' warnings, Scottie sets out to discover the truth. But as she dares to cross the Hollow Sea, will its secrets give her the answers she needs? • Or will the past drag her under?
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