“Is there another side?” I said.
“There is always the other side, always.”
This bit of dialogue in which Mr. Rochester confronts Antoinette Cosoway about accusations concerning her sanity captures Jean Rhys’ vision for Wide Sargasso Sea, a prequel of sorts to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Her goal in this work is to tell the other [...]
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Booklist 2009 # 35: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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