The Collected Short Stories

Name: The Collected Short Stories
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780393023756

403 pages1987W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN 9780393023756

Manners and customs Short stories Fiction Collected works (single author, multi-form)Fiction, short stories (single author)Fiction, general English Short stories

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Jean Rhys was one of the twentieth century's foremost writers, a literary artist who made exquisite 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.

Publication Details

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1987
Pages: 403
ISBN: 9780393023756

About Unknown Author

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), which examined the character of Bertha Rochester (in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre) from a different angle.