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 relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.
A new introduction by the award-winning Edwidge Danticat, author most recently of Claire of the Sea Light, expresses the enduring importance of this work. Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the setting’s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work.

安东尼迪（卡琳娜·隆巴德 Karina Lombard 饰）和弟弟丹尼尔（Ben Thomas 饰）一起同母亲安妮特（雷切尔·沃德 Rachel Ward 饰）过着相依为命的生活，巨大的生活压力和拮据的经济状况让安妮特最终选择嫁给了一位冷酷的英国富商。一场奴隶暴动夺走了丹尼尔年轻的性命，安妮特接受不了打击，发了疯。见此情况，安东尼迪的继父安顿了安东尼迪和她的母亲后返回了英国，就此音信全无。
安东尼迪渐渐长大，为了继承继父的遗产，安东尼迪接受了继父为她安排的婚事，然而，痛苦的童年经历让安东尼迪的心灵饱受创伤，她几乎病态地害怕丈夫的背叛和抛弃。可是，越怕什么越来什么，当安东尼迪发现了丈夫和黑人女仆之间的奸情时，她崩溃了。

故事讲述 18 岁青年，一个在印度孟买贫民窟长大的孤儿，只差一个问题就能拿到令全国观众疯狂的节目《百万富翁》二千万卢布奖金时却被捕，他被怀疑作弊 ─ 没受过教育的孤儿为何能答对所有连博士专家都没把握全中的问题？为了证明自己的清白，他向警察讲述了他奇妙又令人不可置信的成长故事，以及他深爱的女孩。

"Annie John "is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of "The Catcher in the Rye "and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, "Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie's voice--urgent, demanding to be heard--is one that will not soon be forgotten by readers. An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was in such a paradise that I lived." When she turns twelve, however, Annie's life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she instinctively rebels against authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a "young lady," ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary. At the end of her school years, Annie decides to leave Antigua and her family, but not without a measure of sorrow, especially for the mother she once knew and never ceases to mourn. "For I could not be sure," she reflects, "whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world."