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Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin)
Jean Rhys

Penguin Books Ltd, 1998

6 reviews
Jean Rhys

W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

"voila pour toi," said stephan
you're in your late twenties. you used to be a chorus girl. you know your husband is into something shady, but you don't ask. you like the money, and he is kind. so when he's arrested and you're left to fend for yourself alone in paris, without any money, you take comfort in an older married couple, who open up their purses and home, allowing you to get a bit comfy. the husband wants to ...

Ancient Astrology Theory and Practice: Matheseos Libri VIII

2 reviews
Julius Firmicus Maternus

Astrology Classics, 2005

Congratulations to the editors
If you are interesting in the history of astrology, this book is for you. The Work of Julius Firmicus in one pillar of the so called greek astrology, which was integrated in the astrology of the Arabs. It is an invaluable tool for a good understanding of what was astrology and its method in the Antiquity. A reference to have in all offices of professional astrologers.

Voyage in the Dark (Norton Paperback Fiction)

6 reviews
Jean Rhys

W. W. Norton & Company, 1994

moving, pitiless, beautiful
this is my favourite book of all time. i came across it accidentally in Croydon library when I was 20 years old, i loved it then, and i love it now, 20 years later. i read other works of hers (and I think she is an amazing writer) and her biography (by Carole Angier - also utterly brilliant and very highly recommended) - but Voyage in the Dark is still my favourite. Why this is is hard to say. ...

The Collected Short Stories (Norton Paperback Fiction)

3 reviews
Jean Rhys

W. W. Norton & Company, 1992

Superb writing by a neglected master
Despite Rhys' near-constant theme of the "kept" woman who is now too old and paying her dues, she was a fabulous writer with a wonderful way of describing a woman's feelings. Highly recommended to anyone interested in great women writers of the last century.

Jean Rhys: The Complete Novels (Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, Good Morning, ...

1 review
Jean Rhys, Diana Athill

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1985

Not to be Read When Already Downtrodden!
Jean Rhys's first four novels are sequential, slightly fictionalized confessions of her own sad, sordid life. [A stern warning to my teenage son: Stay clear of wistful waifs who exude sexy depression and masochistic neediness, especially if they seem to be talented with words; you won't like yourself in the novel they write about you.] Certainly Ford Madox Ford, a great unhappy writer on ...

Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)

6 reviews
Jean Rhys

Penguin Classics, 2001

Masterful work is spellbinding
I came upon this book raw: I didn't know anything about it, didn't know of its fame, did not know that it has become canonical. To me, it was only a dusty book on the library shelf. But when I began reading the book, it was clear that I had stumbled upon something of great value. The "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys is well-deserving of its newfound stature. The book is beautiful and ...

Good Morning, Midnight

10 reviews
Jean Rhys

W. W. Norton & Company, 1986

Entertaining and Original Writing
I read the present work and then followed up by reading Rhys's big hit, the novel Wide Sargasso Sea. As a general reader I still preferred this present novel to Sargasso Sea. Here she lets her imagination run wild as she describes the partially alcohol soaked life of a young woman living in post WWI era Paris. The feel and structure of the book is original and the prose and structure has a ...

Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel

121 reviews
Jean Rhys

W. W. Norton, 1992

The Mystery Woman
Who is the mad woman in the attic of the house where Jane Eyre has gone to work; how does she come to live there; what drove her to madness? Anyone who has read "Jane Eyre" has, I'm sure, wondered these things as Bronte's story unfolded. Jean Rhys has wondered also, but has tried to answer these questions. The back story which is contained in "Wide Sargasso Sea" fills in answers. Rhys ...

After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (Norton Paperback Fiction)

8 reviews
Jean Rhys

W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

Outside the Machine
After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie (1930) repeats the effective Jean Rhys formula: a broken woman of uncertain age, shattered by hypersensitivity, alcoholism, emotional abuse, vague mental illness, and other 'pathological cruelties of everyday life,' bravely attempts to face another day, suffering self-hatred and self-recrimination with each step of the way. The novel begins with anti-heroine Julia ...

Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

2 reviews
Jean Rhys

Penguin Classics, 1995

Beauty among lost diary pages.
This is a short and sad work by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea that conveys her feelings of leaving her home in the French West Indian colonies only to find disillusionment in Europe.It is, however, a very readable and entertaining book from one of last centuries most neglected authors.

Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)
Jean Rhys

Penguin Books Ltd, 1997

Tigers are Better-Looking: With a selection from The Left Bank (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Jean Rhys

Penguin Classics, 1996

Jean Rhys: Letters 1931-1966 (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Jean Rhys

Penguin Classics, 1995

The Epidemiology of Diabetes Mellitus

Wiley, 2008

For the Second Edition of The Epidemiology of Diabetes Mellitus: An international perspective , all chapters have been completely revised and updated, plus there are some important additions reflecting recent developments. In detail, this volume: Features a new section on prevention and screening ? both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes Features a new section on future challenges, addressing the effects of antipsychotic treatment ...

Wide Sargasso Sea (Bloomsbury Classic)
Jean Rhys

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1992

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