Download or read book After Leaving Mr Mackenzie written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Martin is in Paris and at the end of her rope. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after being dropped by her latest lover, she visits London to see her ailing mother and meets up with her distrustful sister, Norah. This is a haunting picture of two desperate women in a desperate predicament.
Download or read book Good Morning Midnight written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman encounters a life filled with desires and emotions when she returns to Paris after suffering from a bout of depression and alcoholism in London.
Download or read book Quartet written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a woman on the edge caught in the stranglehold between her lover and his wife. When her husband is released from prison, the situation explodes.
Download or read book Wide Sargasso Sea written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"
Download or read book Jean Rhys at World s End written by Mary Lou Emery and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean Islands have long been an uneasy meeting place among indigenous peoples, white European colonists, and black slave populations. Tense oppositions in Caribbean culture—colonial vs. native, white vs. black, male conqueror vs. female subject—supply powerful themes and spark complex narrative experiments in the fiction of Dominica-born novelist Jean Rhys. In this pathfinding study, Mary Lou Emery focuses on Rhys's handling of these oppositions, using a Caribbean cultural perspective to replace the mainly European aesthetic, moral, and psychological standards that have served to misread and sometimes devalue Rhys's writing. Emery considers all five Rhys novels, beginning with Wide Sargasso Sea as the most explicitly Caribbean in its setting, in its participation in the culminating decades of a West Indian literary naissance, and most importantly, in its subversive transformation of European concepts of character. From a sociocultural perspective, she argues persuasively that the earlier novels—Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, and Good Morning, Midnight—should be read as emergent Caribbean fiction, written in tense dialogue with European modernism. Building on this thesis, she reveals how the apparent passivity, masochism, or silence of Rhys's female protagonists results from their doubly marginalized status as women and as subject peoples. Also, she explores how Rhys's women seek out alternative identities in dreamed of, magically realized, or chosen communities. These discoveries offer important insights on literary modernism, Caribbean fiction, and the formation of female identity.
Download or read book Smile Please written by Jean Rhys and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quartet written by Jean Rhys and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Across the Continent written by Barry M. Gough and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the perils and triumphs of the intrepid Scotsman who explored Canada's northwestern wilderness
Download or read book Narrating from the Margins written by Nagihan Haliloğlu and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- The Concern for Self-Possession -- Self-Narration: Conditions, Representations, and Consequences -- The Female Self in Rhys and the Category of the Amateur -- Positioning Rhys's Heroines within Colonial Relations -- Narrative Responses to 'Exile From the English Family': The Zombie and the Mad Witch -- White Female Colonial Self-Articulation: Narrative of Displacement in Voyage in the Dark -- Colonial Creatures: The Community of Life-Stories in Good Morning, Midnight -- Quartet: The Making of the Amateur and Third-Person Self-Narration -- Intersubjectivity and Self-Arrangements in After Leaving Mr Mackenzie -- Membership in the Holy English Family and Mad-Witch Narration in Wide Sargasso Sea -- Conclusion: Self-Narratives for the Chorus Girl and the Horrid Colonial -- Works Cited -- Index.
Download or read book Jean Rhys written by Thomas F Staley and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979-11-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Short Stories written by Jean Rhys and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 cafés; 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).
Download or read book Escapade written by Evelyn Scott and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913, at the age of nineteen, Elsie Dunn - later to be known as Evelyn Scott - turned her back on the genteel Southern world she was born into and ran off to Brazil with a married Tulane University dean more than twice her age. Living in tropical exile under assumed names, the couple produced a son and endured a grueling series of hardships and failures that would provide Evelyn Scott with the raw material for a singular work of fictionalized autobiography. That work, published in 1923 amid expressions of mingled outrage and admiration from the critical establishment, was Escapade.
Download or read book The Collected Short Stories written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Rhys was one of the twentieth century's foremost writers, a literary artist who made exqusite use of the raw material of her own often turbulent life to create fiction of memorable resonance and poignancy. Here for the first time in one volume are her complete stories.
Download or read book Jean Rhys written by Carole Angier and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An acute literary intelligence ... the reader comes to trust instinctively Angier's assessments.' New York Times Jean Rhys (1890-1979) had a long life of great difficulty. So inept was she in its management that her authority as the writer of five beautifully shaped and controlled novels appears mysterious: how could someone so bad at living be so good at writing about it? Carole Angier answers this question. Jean Rhys never denied that she used her own experience in her writings, but no one hitherto has understood so well the nature of, and reasons for, this use. On her way to understanding, Carole Angier discovered more about the life than seemed possible. Jean Rhys's childhood, her momentous first love affair, her three marriages, the disasters which befell her husbands, her drinking and its consequences: all are shown with unsparing clarity. Equally clearly, and more importantly, we see the dynamics of her personality as it underwent, and sometimes provoked, these experiences. Sometimes what is revealed is shocking; but Carole Angier's sympathy and compassion dispel dismay, and her brilliant demonstrations of how art was made of events and emotions restores admiration on foundations which are stronger than ever. Jean Rhys did not want anyone to write about her, but this first full biography put beyond question her standing as a great writer of our time, written with an intensity and clarity which mirrors her own. It is a work of exceptional intimacy, sensitivity and power. 'Remarkable, the definitive biography. It is deeply researched, subtle, sympathetic.' Claire Tomalin Independent on Sunday 'Mesmerising.' Washington Post
Download or read book Not to Disturb A Novel written by Muriel Spark and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Household servants and accidental guests must wait out the orders of the lords of the house: not to disturb. A winter’s night; a luxurious mansion near Geneva; a lucrative scandal. The first to arrive is the secretary dressed in furs with a bundle of cash, then the Baron, and finally the Baroness. They lock themselves in the library with specific instructions not to be disturbed for any reason. Soon, shouts and screams emerge from the library; the Baron’s lunatic brother starts madly howling in the attic; two of the secretary’s friends are left waiting in a car; a reverend’s services are needed for an impromptu wedding—and despite all that the servants obey their orders as they pass the time playing records, preparing dinner, and documenting false testimonies while a twisted murder plot unfolds upstairs.
Download or read book Voyage in the Dark written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prescient and technically astonishing." --Geoff Dyer, GQ
Download or read book The Man of Feeling written by Henry Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
