Voyage in the Dark

Name: Voyage in the Dark
ISBN: 9780393358124

Jean Rhys

188 pages · about 3 hours
First published 1934
24 editions

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1 About this book

A haunting semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman from the Caribbean adrift in England.

Immigrants
Love
London (england)
England

2 About Jean Rhys

1890–1979

Jean Rhys ( REESS; born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a British Creole novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her final novel, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

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