Best Selling Books by Jean Rhys

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.

"A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"

"Lucid, exact, and swift. . . . An essential part of the [Rhys] record." ―V. S. Naipaul, The New York Review of Books Julia Martin has long depended on the generosity of men. But when her affair with Mr. Mackenzie comes to an end, leaving her near destitute in Paris, Julia reaches a turning point. Her youth waning and her desperation growing, Julia returns to London, only to discover her ailing mother no longer recognizes her and her estranged sister wants nothing to do with her. With psychological depth and penetrating insight, Jean Rhys explores the contradictions of love and the perils of being a woman without means in interwar Europe in a novel the Guardian calls "a flawless work of art." "If ever there was an unsung heroine of feminist literature, it is the amazing Jean Rhys." –Alan Cumming, Emmy and Tony Award–winning actor

Anna Morgan, a teenage girl performing in the chorus at theaters in small English towns, tries to find happiness with Walter Jeffries, who eventually abandons her.

Marya Zelli, penniless in Paris, is befriended by Hugh and Lois Heider, but their generosity proves to be ambiguous, and Marya finds herself entangled in a frightening web.

One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World'' ''Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century'' Michele Roberts Jean Rhys''s masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyre''s ''madwoman in the attic'', Bertha Rochester. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel''s heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys''s brief, beautiful masterpiece. Edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith

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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.