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27 reviews
Marie-elena John

Amistad, 2006

Fascinating!
Wow. What a great novel! It's hard to believe it's fiction. The way the author ties in the characters, as well as the geographical and cultural references almost make this novel seem like a recap of Dominican oral histories. And to top it off, I learned sooo much from this book. I found myself constantly researching many of the references in the book: Maroons, Caribs, and Igbo cultures, the ...

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 ...

Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea; A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism

6 reviews

Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

The horror... the horror... Wide Sargasso Sea is a searing indictment
Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea is a dreamlike feverish novel awash in passion and trauma. Forget for a moment that it's a sequel to "Jane Eyre" or that it is a seminal text in Feminism and Colonialist studies. Simply as a strikingly modern story of trauma and madness it is brilliant. Disorienting, agonizing, nightmarish yet stunningly beautiful; I was forced to read it in dribs and drabs - as ...

GradeSaver (tm) ClassicNotes Wide Sargasso Sea Study Guide
Jennie K. Hann

GradeSaver, LLC, 2007

GradeSaver(TM) ClassicNotes are the most comprehensive study guides on the market, written by Harvard students for students! Longer, with more detailed summary and analysis sections and sample essays, ClassicNotes are the best choice for advanced students and educators. Each note includes: * An author biography * An in-depth chapter-by-chapter summary * A short summary * A character list and related descriptions * A list of themes * A ...

Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel

122 reviews
Jean Rhys

W. W. Norton, 1992

Interesting and Exciting Read
I read this book because it's on the Modern Library's Top 100 list, so unfortunately I haven't read Emily Bronte's Jane Eyre. I think once I read that book, I'll be able to come back to Wide Sargasso Sea, and understand it on a deeper level. Even so, I enjoyed reading this book, and was intrigued by the mysterious portrayal of the characters. The main character Antoinetta's tragic life, turbulent ...

A Sea within a Sea: Secrets of the Sargasso

3 reviews

Grosset & Dunlap, 2000

Folklore monsters and oceanographic science
The Sargasso Sea lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and is the source of countless maritime legends and lore. It is also a place of tranquility, marine life, and tangled seaweed that blankets the surface of the sea and entraps unwary ships. In A Sea Within A Sea: Secrets Of The Sargasso, Ruth Heller vividly explores the secrets of the Sargasso through well crafted rhymes and museum quality ...

The Lost Oasis and The Sargasso Ogre: Two Classic Adventures of Doc Savage

4 reviews
Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent

Nostalgia Ventures, 2007

"Where are the Rats?"
A good read, but if you are looking for the Sargasso Sea of Legend...the Ravenous Rats, Fungus Infected Seamen, Slobbering creatures emerging from the wreckage to roam about the deck at night, Deranged Scientists...Sigh!.. I waited for the ships caught in the great whirlpool to appear out of the mists, their decks overrun with dimly viewed, undulating masses from the unknown.....Much to my ...

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

Penguin Books Ltd, 1997

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 (Essential Penguin)
Jean Rhys

Penguin Books Ltd, 1998

Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.

Sargasso

3 reviews
Edwin Corley

Doubleday, 1977

Like a novel version of an episode of "In Search Of"
If you've ever seen an episode of "In Search Of", the funky 70's show about true tales of the paranormal, then you'll find "Sargasso" very familliar - which seems to capture both the mysteries of the Triangle and a very '70s way of thinking about them. The story here has a group of vacationers sailing the Bermuda triangle and encountering many of the phenomenon that comprised that area's lore ...

The Nature of Florida's Ocean Life : Including Coral Reefs, Gulf Stream, Sargasso Sea, and Sunken Ships
Cathie Katz

Atlantic Press (FL), 1998

This book looks at Florida's ocean as a habitat, a community of elaborate mini-creatures swimming next to bulky saltwater giants. Drifting alongside these living creatures are inanimate objects--bottles, nurdles, rafts, toys and tar blobs--lost or tossed from cargo ships. They float in the Sargasso Sea or flow with the Gulf Stream, sometimes drifting to Florida's east coast to become part of the sea wrack--the flotsam and jetsam that we find ...

Sargasso of Space (Solar Queen, Bk. 1)

8 reviews
Andre Norton

Ace, 1985

First Solar Queen adventure
"Sargasso of Space" (1955) and "Plague Ship" (1956) were the first two science fiction novels I ever checked out of our local library (I can still close my eyes and see that one dinky little shelf, crammed with some of SFs' greatest juvenile authors: Norton; Heinlein; Del Rey; Nourse). "Sargasso of Space" is the first of four 'Solar Queen' adventures, followed by "Plague Ship,""Postmarked the ...

Outlanders: Sargasso Plunder

4 reviews
James Axler

Gold Eagle, 2001

OUTLANDERS TAKE A DIVE!
This new novel was written by a exciting author named Mel Odom, whom in my opinion, fits right in this universe better than he does his fantasy novels. He may make mistakes in some ways as far as consistancy, but he adds a new element in the characters that are refreshing and new - sometimes! But you know that Mark Ellis will return and make things alright again, so don't fret you diehard ...