The 1966 novel 'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean Rhys was written as a prequel to which 19th century novel?
"as Antoinette Cosway and Rafe Spall as Rochester. Wide Sargasso Sea (2006 film) Wide Sargasso Sea is a British television adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name. Produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC Wales, the one-off 90-minute drama was first broadcast on digital television channel BBC Four on 9 October 2006. It was repeated on BBC One on Sunday, 22 October 2006, the week following the conclusion of BBC One's adaptation of ""Jane Eyre"", to which ""Wide Sargasso Sea"" is a prequel. The adaptation was scripted by playwright Stephen Greenhorn, produced by Elwen Rowlands and"
"Blue Flower"", as one of ""the ten best historical novels"". Richard Adams's first novel, the bestseller ""Watership Down"", was published when he was in his fifties. The Marquis de Sade published his first novel, ""Justine"", after turning 51. Raymond Chandler published his first short story at 45, and his first novel, ""The Big Sleep"" at 51. Paul Torday published his debut novel ""Salmon Fishing in the Yemen"" at the age of 59, after a career in the engineering industry. Jean Rhys is best known for her novel ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", which was published in October 1966, when she was 76."
"Antoinette's ancestors had made their fortune. The novel does not shy away from uncomfortable truths about British history that had been neglected in Bronte's narrative. Trevor Hope remarks that the ""triumphant conflagration of Thornfield Hall in ""Wide Sargasso Sea"" may at one level mark a vengeful attack upon the earlier textual structure"". The destruction of Thornfield Hall occurs in both novels; however, Rhys epitomises the fire as a liberating experience for Antoinette. If Thornfield Hall represents domestic ideas of Britishness, then Hope suggests ""Wide Sargasso Sea"" is ""taking residence inside the textual domicile of empire in order to bring about"
"that would carry it. It received a largely favorable review by critic Vincent Canby of the ""New York Times"". He describes the lean Gothic romance film as ""romantic"" but ""without soft edges. It is as cool, precise and hard as the Rhys prose."" Canby also notes that the casting of Karina Lombard, who is half-Lakota, adds an unstated racial dimension that is not part of the novel. ""Wide Sargasso Sea"" grossed $45,806 at the box office in Australia. Wide Sargasso Sea (1993 film) Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1993 Australian film adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same"
"writes primarily in Afrikaans, though many of their works have been translated into English. Dalene Matthee's (1938 – 2005) is another Afrikaner, best known for her four ""Forest Novels"", written in and around the Knysna Forest, including ""Fiela se Kind"" (1985) (""Fiela's Child""). Her books have been translated into fourteen languages, including English, French, and German. and over a million copies have been sold worldwide. Maryse Condé (1937 – ) is a French (Guadeloupean) author of historical fiction, best known for her novel ""Segu"" (1984–1985). An exemplar post-colonial novel is ""Wide Sargasso Sea"" (1966) by Jean Rhys (1890 – 1979),"
"Zealander Katherine Mansfield published her first collection of short stories, ""In a German Pension"", in 1911. The first major novelist, writing in English, from the Indian sub-continent, R.K. Narayan, began publishing in England in the 1930s, thanks to the encouragement of English novelist Graham Greene. Caribbean writer Jean Rhys's writing career began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", was not published until 1966. South Africa's Alan Paton's famous ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" dates from 1948. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, was a dominant presence in the English literary scene, frequently publishing from"
"Brontë's devilish ""madwoman in the attic"". Antoinette's story is told from the time of her youth in Jamaica, to her unhappy marriage to a certain unnamed English gentleman, who renames her Bertha, declares her mad, and takes her to England. Antoinette is caught in an oppressive patriarchal society in which she neither fully belongs to Europe nor Jamaica. ""Wide Sargasso Sea"" explores the power of relationships between men and women and develops postcolonial themes, such as racism, displacement, and assimilation. The novel, initially set in Jamaica, opens a short while after the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ended slavery in the"
"in 1973 that it is ""the most subtle and complete of [Rhys'] novels, and the most humane."" Good Morning, Midnight (Rhys novel) Good Morning, Midnight is a 1939 modernist novel by the author Jean Rhys. Often considered a continuation of Rhys' three other early novels, ""Quartet"" (1928), ""After Leaving Mr Mackenzie"" (1930) and ""Voyage in the Dark"" (1934), it is experimental in design and deals with a woman's feelings of vulnerability, depression, loneliness and desperation during the years between the two World Wars. The book initially sold poorly—critics thought it well written, but too depressing—and after its publication Rhys spent"
"age, to ""be like her"". Antoinette is rebuffed by violence from Tia, leading to her seeing Tia ""as if I saw myself. Like in a looking glass"". Erwin argues that ""even as she claims to be seeing ""herself,"" she is simultaneously seeing ""the other"", that which only defines the self by its separation from it, in this case literally by means of a cut. History here, in the person of a former slave's daughter, is figured as refusing Antoinette"", the daughter of a slave owner. In ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", Rhys draws attention to colonialism and the slave trade by which"
"began in January 2008, marking 30 years of independence. Dominica is often seen as a society that is migrating from collectivism to that of individualism. The economy is a developing one that previously depended on agriculture. Signs of collectivism are evident in the small towns and villages which are spread across the island. The famed novelist Jean Rhys was born and raised in Dominica. The island is obliquely depicted in her best-known book, ""Wide Sargasso Sea."" Rhys's friend, the political activist and writer Phyllis Shand Allfrey, set her 1954 novel, ""The Orchid House"" (), in Dominica. Much of the Walt"
"Good Morning, Midnight (Rhys novel) Good Morning, Midnight is a 1939 modernist novel by the author Jean Rhys. Often considered a continuation of Rhys' three other early novels, ""Quartet"" (1928), ""After Leaving Mr Mackenzie"" (1930) and ""Voyage in the Dark"" (1934), it is experimental in design and deals with a woman's feelings of vulnerability, depression, loneliness and desperation during the years between the two World Wars. The book initially sold poorly—critics thought it well written, but too depressing—and after its publication Rhys spent a decade living in obscurity. It was not until it was adapted into a theatrical production in"
"The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Forecastle (1897; also subtitled A Tale of the Sea and published in the US as The Children of the Sea) is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Because of its quality compared to earlier works, some have described it as marking the start of Conrad's major, or middle, period; others have placed it as the best work of his early, or first, period. The author's preface to the novel, regarded as a manifesto of literary impressionism, is considered one of Conrad's most significant pieces of non-fiction writing."
"episode. It has inspired a new genre, the Robinsonade, as works like Johann David Wyss' ""The Swiss Family Robinson"" (1812) adapt its premise and has provoked modern postcolonial responses, including J. M. Coetzee's ""Foe"" (1986) and Michel Tournier's ""Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique"" (in English, ""Friday, or, The Other Island"") (1967). Two sequels followed, Defoe's ""The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe"" (1719) and his ""Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world"" (1720). Jonathan Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"" (1726) in part parodies Defoe's adventure novel. The book proved so popular"
"in 1899). Rhys's title turns Conrad's on its head: instead of a journey from England to the dark depths of savagery in colonial Africa, it is in England that Anna travels through darkness and despair, while the colonies created in the West Indies are depicted as places of light and innocence. London is represented as a monotonous, suffocating, and alien city, in contrast to Anna's bright, vibrant, and sensual home in Dominica. Through the character of Anna, ""Voyage in the Dark"" presents the tension between wanting to be integrated into English society and simultaneously resisting it, a trait it shares"
"began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", was not published until 1966. South Africa's Alan Paton's famous ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" dates from 1948. Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981, which was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Booker prize, and was named Booker of Bookers in 1993. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. V. S. Naipaul"
"intended his essay ""L'Archipel de la Manche"" (""The Archipelago of the [English] Channel"") as an introduction to this novel, although it was not published until 1883, and the two have only been published together in the 20th century. In 2002, Modern Library published an edition with a new translation by James Hogarth, which bills itself as ""the first unabridged English edition of the novel"". There have been at least five film adaptations of the novel, including: Toilers of the Sea Toilers of the Sea () is a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1866. The book is dedicated to the"
"reviewed and summarized the story in his poem ""Wicked Alexandia"" in response to seeing the Massenet opera. The poem was subsequently popularized as a comic song. Thaïs (novel) Thaïs is a novel by French writer Anatole France, published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Thaïs of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is said to have lived in the 4th century. It was the inspiration for the opera of the same name by Jules Massenet. Paphnuce, an ascetic hermit of the Egyptian desert, journeys to Alexandria to find Thais, the libertine beauty whom"
"(1688) had come from her theatrical experience. Delarivier Manley's ""New Atlantis"" (1709) comes closest to an inheritor of Behn's, but her novel, while political and satirical, was a minor scandal. On the other hand, Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"" (1719) was the first major novel of the new century. Defoe had written political and religious polemics prior to ""Robinson Crusoe,"" and he worked as a journalist during and after its composition. Thus, Defoe encountered the memoirs of Alexander Selkirk, who was a rather brutish individual who had been stranded in South America on an island for some years. Defoe took the"
"as ""Framed"", ""Screen One"", ""Full Stretch"", ""Just a Gigolo"", ""To Play the King"", ""Tales of the South Seas"" and ""Wonderful You"". King is known to the British public for her portrayal of Amelie in ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", the 1993 film adaption, directed by John Duigan, of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name; and as Rachel Morris in director Julian Richards' 1996 horror film ""Darklands"". Her role as ""attendant to Gertrude"" in Kenneth Branagh's four-hour screen version of ""Hamlet"" drew on King's Shakespearean background, but provided her with relatively little screen time. In 2006 she had a secondary role"
"into English. Set in the mid-nineteenth century, the narrator identifies the novel's protagonist as Sarah Woodruff, the ""Woman"" of the title, also known as ""Tragedy"" and as ""The French Lieutenant's Whore"". She lives in the coastal town of Lyme Regis as a disgraced woman, supposedly abandoned by a French ship's officer named Varguennes who had returned to France and married. She spends some of her limited free time on The Cobb, a stone jetty where she stares out to sea. One day, Charles Smithson, an orphaned gentleman, and Ernestina Freeman, his fiancée and a daughter of a wealthy tradesman, see"
"metafiction are ""those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim to historical events and personages"". Works often described as examples of historiographical metafiction include: William Shakespeare's ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"" (c.1608), John Fowles' ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969), E. L. Doctorow's ""Ragtime"" (1975), William Kennedy's ""Legs"" (1975), Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), A. S. Byatt's ""Possession"" (1990), Michael Ondaatje's ""The English Patient"" (1992), Thomas Pynchon's ""Mason & Dixon"" (1997) and many others. By seeking to represent both ""actual historical events"" from World War Two while, at the same time, ""problematizing"" the very"
"John Bunyan's ""The Pilgrim's Progress"" (1678) and Aphra Behn's ""Oroonoko"" (1688) are also contenders, while earlier works such as Sir Thomas Malory's ""Morte d'Arthur"", and even the ""Prologue"" to Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" have been suggested. Another important early novel is ""Gulliver's Travels"" (1726, amended 1735), by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, which is both a satire of human nature, as well as a parody of travellers' tales like ""Robinson Crusoe"". The rise of the novel as an important literary genre is generally associated with the growth of the middle class in England. Other major 18th-century English novelists are"
"reading satisfaction. The 20th-century love romance is a successor of the novels Madeleine de Scudéry, Marie de La Fayette, Aphra Behn, and Eliza Haywood wrote from the 1640s into the 1740s. The modern adventure novel goes back to Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"" (1719) and its immediate successors. Modern pornography has no precedent in the chapbook market but originates in libertine and hedonistic belles lettres, of works like John Cleland's ""Fanny Hill"" (1749) and similar eighteenth century novels. Ian Fleming's ""James Bond"" is a descendant of the anonymous yet extremely sophisticated and stylish narrator who mixed his love affairs with his"
"Voyage in the Dark Voyage in the Dark was written in 1934 by Jean Rhys. It tells of the semi-tragic descent of its young protagonist Anna Morgan, who is moved from her Caribbean home to England by an uncaring stepmother, after the death of her father. Once she leaves school, and she is cut off financially by the stepmother, Hester, Anna tries to support herself as a chorus girl, then becomes involved with an older man named Walter who supports her financially. When he leaves her, she begins a downward spiral. Like William Faulkner's ""The Wild Palms"", the novel features"
"Thaïs (novel) Thaïs is a novel by French writer Anatole France, published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Thaïs of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is said to have lived in the 4th century. It was the inspiration for the opera of the same name by Jules Massenet. Paphnuce, an ascetic hermit of the Egyptian desert, journeys to Alexandria to find Thais, the libertine beauty whom he knew as a youth. Masquerading as a dandy, he is able to speak with her about eternity; surprisingly he succeeds in converting her to Christianity."
"began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", was not published until 1966. South Africa's Alan Paton's famous ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" dates from 1948. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, was a dominant presence in the English literary scene, frequently publishing from 1950 on throughout the 20th century. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Salman Rushdie is another post Second World War writer from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired"
"by a ""Captain Adam Seaborn"" (1820) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr.; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel ""The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket;"" Jules Verne's 1864 novel ""Journey to the Center of the Earth,"" which described a prehistoric subterranean world; and George Sand's 1864 novel ""Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal"" where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth. In William Henry Hudson's 1887 romance, ""A Crystal Age"", the protagonist falls down a hill into a Utopian, asexual, pastoral paradise; since he falls into this world, it is sometimes classified"
"(1957) concerns a woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel; ""The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"" (1961), at times takes the reader briefly into the distant future, to see the various fates that befall its characters. Anthony Burgess is especially remembered for his dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1962), set in the not-too-distant future, which was made into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. In the entirely different genre of Gothic fantasy Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his highly successful Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. One of Penguin Books' most successful publications in the"
"early 19th century. Other non-European works, such as the Torah, the Koran, and the Bible, are full of stories, and thus have also had a significant influence on the development of prose narratives, and therefore the novel. Then at the beginning of the 18th century, French prose translations brought Homer's works to a wider public, who accepted them as forerunners of the novel. Classical Greek and Roman prose narratives included a didactic strand, with the philosopher Plato's (c. 425 – c. 348 BC) dialogues; a satirical dimension with Petronius' ""Satyricon""; the incredible stories of Lucian of Samosata; and Lucius Apuleius'"
"Marie (novel) Marie is a 1912 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. The plot concerns Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie's anti-English father, and her villainous cousin Hernan Pereira, who desires Marie. They are Voortrekkers who take part in the Great Trek whom Quatermain has to rescue. The novel describes Quatermain's involvement in the Sixth Xhosa War of 1835 and Weenen massacre. Real life people such as Piet Retief, Thomas Halstead, and the Zulu chief Dingane appear as characters. Events in"
"The Sea Wall (novel) The Sea Wall () is a 1950 novel by the French writer Marguerite Duras. It was adapted for film in 1958 as ""This Angry Age"" and in 2008 as ""The Sea Wall"". Inspired largely by her own adolescence in French Indochina, Duras wrote this novel in 1950, just after divorcing her first husband and remarrying. In the south of French Indochina, in 1931, a widow is living with her two children, Joseph and Suzanne (20 and 17 years old). Their isolated and uncultivable concession is located in the marsh plain of Ram (Prey-Nop, Sihanoukville Province). Their"
"Alexis Lykiard Alexis Lykiard (born 1940) is a British writer of Greek heritage, who began his prolific career as novelist and poet in the 1960s. His poems about jazz have received particular acclaim, including from Maya Angelou, Hugo Williams, Roy Fisher, Kevin Bailey and others. He is also known as translator of Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont, Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud and many notable French literary figures. In addition, Lykiard has written two highly praised intimate memoirs of Jean Rhys: ""Jean Rhys Revisited"" (2000) and ""Jean Rhys: Afterwords"" (2006). According to David Woolley of ""Poetry Wales"": ""As poet, novelist and"
"where nothing moved but schools of fish""; but there is no clear indication of how many generations of fishermen would have this experience before Joald finally broke loose and the whole land shared Ys' fate. ""Lyonesse: Madouc"" received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1990. Lyonesse Trilogy The Lyonesse Trilogy is a group of three fantasy novels by Jack Vance, set in the European Dark Ages, in the mythical Elder Isles west of France and southwest of Britain, a generation or two before the birth of King Arthur. An Atlantis theme haunts the story, as do numerous references"