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The Collected Short Stories

by Jean Rhys · 1987

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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 volume are her complete stories.

Genre
literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
raceraceMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of this
Subject
psychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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