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Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual…

Роман известной английской писательницы Джин Рис (1890-1979) "Путешествие во тьме" (1934) был воспринят в свое время как настоящее откровение. Впервые трагедия вынужденного странничества показана через призму переживаний обыкновенного человека, а не художника или писателя. Весьма современно звучит история девушки, родившейся на одном из Карибских островов, которая попыталась обрести приют и душевный покой на родине своего отца, в промозглом и туманном Лондоне. Внутренний мир героини передан с редкостной тонкостью и точностью, благодаря особой, сдержанно-напряженной интонации. На русском языке роман публикуется впервые.

Действие романов охватывает конец XIX - начало ХХ веков. Истории нескольких поколений, их взаимоотношений, вечные человеческие проблемы, связанные с любовью поисками своего места в жизни, создают атмосферу непростого человеческого бытия.

Jean Rhys was a talent before her time with an impressive ability to express the anguish of young, single women. In GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT Rhys created the powerfully modern portrait of Sophia Jansen, whose emancipation is far more painful and complicated than she could expect, but whose confession is flecked with triumph and elation. One of the most honest and distinctive British novelists of the 20th Century, Jean Rhys wrote about women with perception and sensitivity in an innovative and often controversial way. In GOOD MORNING MIDNIGHT (1939) she creates an unforgettable portrait of a woman forced to confront her inevitable loneliness…

В сборник вошли две известнейшие английские мелодрамы. "Антуанетта" Джин Рис — это вариация на тему знаменитого романа Ш.Бронте "Джен Эйр", история детства, юности и замужества загадочной жены мистера Рочестера; "Круглая башня" — мелодрама классика этого жанра Кэтрин Куксон, именем которой в Англии названа премия, ежегодно присуждаемая за лучший любовный роман.

Tigers are Better-Looking is a collection of short stories written by famed Dominican author Jean Rhys, published in 1968 by André Deutsch and reissued by Penguin ten years later. This collection combines eight stories written by Rhys during the 1950s (her period of obscurity) with another nine from her previous efforts in 1927's The Left Bank and Other Stories. In 1979, the title story from Rhys's collection was adapted into a UK-produced short film, directed by Hussein Shariffe.

Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, QUARTET is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms with mauve- flowered wallpaper, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality of her surroundings. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she is taken up by an English couple who slowly overwhelm her with their passions. Jean Rhys's first novel is both poignant anddisturbingly intimate in its vivid depiction of a woman on her own.

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 out.

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 from one of the truest voices in twentieth-century fiction.

Tigers are Better-Looking incorporates selections from Jean Rhys's first book of stories, The Left Bank, published in 1927, and later stories written after 1939. In them she encompasses within a few pages both the gaiety and charm of youth and love, and an awareness of all that threatens them.

Writing in The New York Times, A. Alvarez has called these stories "extraordinary." The early stories have added value in that they illuminate Jean Rhys's development as a writer. Those written later, when her art was mature, are on the level of her novels and demonstrate that she is one of the most distinguished writers of our time, "the best living English novelist," again to quote Alvarez.

The title of this collection comes from the opinion which many of Jean Rhys's characters share, that respectable people are as alarming as tigers, but "tigers are better-looking, aren't they?" It also reflects the astringent humor in her work; an explanation that however sad or even sordid her subject, she is never depressing.

A collection of 16 short stories by the author of "Wide Sargasso Sea", "Voyage in the Dark" and "Good Morning, Midnight".