Quartet

Name: Quartet
Author: Jean Rhys

by Jean Rhys

Early novel depicting a woman caught in a complicated love triangle in Paris

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Jean Rhys

Rhys was a Caribbean-born British writer whose novels of female displacement and male cruelty are among the most distinctive of the modernist period. Wide Sargasso Sea, her reimagining of Jane Eyre from Bertha Mason's perspective, is a landmark of postcolonial literature.

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Wide Sargasso SeaPrequel to Jane Eyre retelling Rochester's mad wife's backstory in Jamaica
Good Morning, MidnightNovel following an impoverished woman's descent through European cities and despair
Voyage in the DarkNovel of a young woman from the Caribbean navigating London life and sexual exploitation
After Leaving Mr MackenzieNovel about a woman's struggle for survival after abandonment by her lover in London
Good Morning MidnightNovel of a woman wandering European cities, trapped by poverty and self-delusion
After Leaving Mr. MackenzieNovel exploring vulnerability as an impoverished woman endures abandonment and rejection