{"product_id":"wide-sargasso-sea-1","title":"Wide Sargasso Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJean Rhys's spell-binding novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWide Sargasso Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now... Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals, unaware that in taking away her identity he is destroying a part of himself as well as pushing her towards madness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSet against the lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica, Jean Rhys's powerful, haunting masterpiece was inspired by her fascination with the first Mrs Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Jean Rhys\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780241951552\u003cbr\u003eType: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 178x112mm\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin UK\u003cbr\u003ePublished Date: May 2011\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46522128334984,"sku":"9780241951552","price":23.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0374\/8895\/1432\/products\/Untitled-109_8e5b91e2-e746-4f1e-ba87-6b5d233ddbf5.jpg?v=1671421525","url":"https:\/\/shop.nma.gov.au\/products\/wide-sargasso-sea-1","provider":"National Museum Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}