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Join us for the latest Virtual Classics Book Club. This month’s featured book is Jean Rhys’s “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 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.” (Goodreads)
How do you attend online? We use Zoom, which can be used via telephone or through the Zoom app. You can download the app from Zoom’s website or from your device’s App store. Please email morristownreaders@mmt.mainlib.org using the subject “Virtual Classics Book Club” to receive the access details for this meeting. If you need help downloading the app, call us or email refdesk@mmt.mainlib.org.
The Virtual Classics Book Club is open to everyone, whether or not you are a Morristown or Morris Township resident. We look forward to your joining us!
P.S. Didn’t get a chance to finish or read this month’s book before our meeting? No problem! Click here for the catalog link.