- Manners and customs, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
This work contains Jean Rhys' final collection of short stories. The sixteen stories are loosely chronological, often mirroring Rhys' own life. They stretch over an approximate 75-year period, starting from the end of the nineteenth century (November 1899) to circa 1975.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Jean Rhys
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Penguin Classics, Deutsch
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140183450
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Jean Rhys, born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in 1890, was a 20th-century novelist and writer of short stories. Born and raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica, she moved to England at age 16, became a chorus girl, and embarked on the life of a demimondaine there and in Europe. Her deep sense of being an outsider -- the descendant of white colonialists in the Caribbean, then a Creole in England -- never left her and deeply informed her work. Rhys's evocative sketches in the 1920s caught the eye, and briefly earned the patronage, of Ford Madox Ford (her fraught relationship with him is explored in her debut novel, Quartet [1928]). She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), w
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