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        Wide Sargasso Sea


        setting

        British Empire

        time

        1833

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1966

        page count

        171

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Antoinette, unnamed Englishman

        Rip's impressions

        A bold literary achievement as a sequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Pulls the reader into a sultry dream which takes place in the smoldering heat of the West Indies.

        first line

        They say when trouble comes closes ranks, and so the white people did.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

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