The Collected Short Stories
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 volum...
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
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 ...
Voyage in the Dark
'A wonderful bitter-sweet book, written with disarming simplicity' Esther Freud 'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the ...
Good Morning, Midnight
In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very 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, es...
Good Morning, Midnight
The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the lov...
Godmorgon, Midnatt!
»Det är en fantastisk roman, som tiden nu äntligen har kommit ikapp.« | Björn Kohlström, Jönköpings-Posten»God morgon, midnatt! är helt enkelt en briljant skildring av ångest, av ensamhet, av det borttappade livet och av den lilla, hemliga underström som förmår en människa att försöka leva en allra sista gång.« | Malin Ullgren, DN»Jean Rhys skriver fram en rastlös monotoni, en lågintensiv desperation i febriga stycken prosa [... ] Det är hjärtskärande, sorgligt och vackert.« | Jenny Aschenbrenner, SvD I trettiotalets Paris, där det ena billiga hotellrummet liknar det andra, undervisar en ung kvinna sig själv i likgiltighet. Hon har undkommit en personlig tragedi och flyttat till Paris för att finna mod och självständighet. Hon intalar sig att aldrig förvänta sig något, i synnerhet inte vänlighet - och i synnerhet inte från männen. I morgon, beslutar hon sig, ska hon bleka håret blont.Jean Rhys hör till genierna i den engelskspråkiga 1900-talslitteraturen, och God morgon, midnatt! [Good Morning, Midnight!, 1939] hör till de absoluta mästerverken.I svensk översättning av Annika Preis och med ett förord av författaren och kritikern Arazo Arif.JEAN RHYS [1890 -1979], född Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, var en brittisk författare med västindiskt ursprung (Dominikanska Republiken), bosatt i England fr.o.m. 16 års ålder. Kort efter utgivningen av God morgon, midnatt! [1939] försvann Rhys från offentlighetens ljus, innan hon oväntat återkom med romanen Sargassohavet [1966].»En existentiell redovisning som trots sina 78 år på nacken känns osannolikt modern. Jag önskar att Godmorgon, midnatt! aldrig skulle ta slut.« | Anna Lundvik, Sydsvenskan»En sådan äkthet och en sådan nerv!« | Just här - Just nu»Den mest subtila, mest fulländade - och mest mänskliga - av Jean Rhys romaner.« | V.S. Naipaul
Voyage in the Dark - A Novel
Often considered Jean Rhys's most autobiographical novel, this masterful and moving work follows a chorus girl, Anna, who struggles to adjust to cold and inhospitable England after a childhood in the West Indies. When an affair that at first feels...
Smile Please
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 ce...
Quartet
Jean Rhys's first novel, a heartbreaking and disturbingly intimate portrayal of an isolated woman in Paris Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, Quartet is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet st...
Collected Short Stories
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 haun...
Wide Sargasso Sea
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 stor...
Wide Sargasso Sea
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 circulat...
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Julia Martin is in Paris and at the end of her rope. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now, after being dropped by her latest lover, Mr. Mackenzie, Julia is running out of luck and chances. A visit to London to see her ailing mother mi...
Wide Sargasso Sea
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...
Wide Sargasso Sea
One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World' Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'There...
