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AFTER LEAVING MR MACKENZIE by RHYS JEAN
Category: Fiction
Julia Martin is at the end of her rope in Paris. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after leaving her last lover, she is running out of luck and chances. A visit to London to see her ailing mother and distrustful sister bring her stark life into full focus. A masterful and terrifying tale ...Show more
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie by Jean Rhys
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she rea ...Show more
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Category: Classic | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is much like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, s ...Show more
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determination, Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnightincludes an introduction by A.L. Kennedy in Penguin Modern Classics. In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is tea ...Show more
La Grosse Fifi by Jean Rhys
Category: Fiction
'There was nothing of the blond beast about the gigolo - he was dark, slim, beautiful as some Latin god. And how soft his eyes were, how sweet his mouth ...Horrible, horrible gigolo'. These four haunting stories from the author of "Wide Sargasso Sea" capture moments in the lives of European dilettantes, ...Show more
QUARTET by RHYS JEAN
Category: Fiction
Now available for the first time in paperback, "Quartet" "belongs to the new tradition in prose, which shuns elaboration for sharpness and intensity of effect" ("New York Times"). A woman, caught in the stranglehold between her lover and his wife, faces a further dilemma when her own husband is released ...Show more
Quartet by Jean Rhys
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Living in Paris with her reckless, vagabond husband Stephan, Marya is very near to being happy. She enjoys their hap-hazard existence, never questioning how he lives, never wanting to know the truth. When Stephan is suddenly imprisoned she is left penniless and alone. Taken up by a sophisticated English ...Show more
Smile Please by Jean Rhys
Category: Biography and Memoir
A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early years in Dominica, England and Paris. Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, now the celebrated author of Wide Sargasso Sea but still haunted by ...Show more
The Collected Short Stories by Jean Rhys
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 dra ...Show more
Till September Petronella (Mini Modern Classics) by Jean Rhys
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl - all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws.'In stories that span the course of a lifetime - from childhood in the Caribbean to adolescent modelling in Paris; and from lonely adulthood to old age and beyond - here are women adrift, at sea, down but not quite ...Show more