Left Bank, and Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Series)
by Jean Rhys
Illusion.--a Spiritualist.--from A French Prison.--in A Café.--tout Montparnasse And A Lady.--mannequin.--in The Luxemburg Gardens.--tea With An Artist.--trio.--mixing Cocktails.--again The Antilles.--hunger.--discourse Of A Lady Standing A Dinner To A Down-and-out Friend.--a Night.--in The Rue De L'arrivée.--learning To Be A Mother.--the Blue Bird.--the Grey Day.--at The Villa D'or.--la Grosse Fifi.--vienne. With A Pref. By Ford Madox Ford.
FICTION_SHORT STORIES (single author)
RELEASED1927
PUBLISHERBooks for Libraries
LENGTH256
LANGUAGEEN
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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.
Left Bank, and Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Series)
by Jean Rhys
Illusion.--a Spiritualist.--from A French Prison.--in A Café.--tout Montparnasse And A Lady.--mannequin.--in The Luxemburg Gardens.--tea With An Artist.--trio.--mixing Cocktails.--again The Antilles.--hunger.--discourse Of A Lady Standing A Dinner To A Down-and-out Friend.--a Night.--in The Rue De L'arrivée.--learning To Be A Mother.--the Blue Bird.--the Grey Day.--at The Villa D'or.--la Grosse Fifi.--vienne. With A Pref. By Ford Madox Ford.
FICTION_SHORT STORIES (single author)
RELEASED1927
PUBLISHERBooks for Libraries
LENGTH256
LANGUAGEEN
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.
