(RHYS, Jean.) Voyage in the Dark.
First Edition. 8vo., Publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket; priced at 5 shillings, a small Foyles Bookseller’s sticker to the front pastedown, pp. 219; plus 24 pp. of Publisher’s ads. Published by Constable (London), 1934.
Expert retouches and restorations to spine, upper edge, and joints, a very slight shelf lean, three tiny tears to page edges of the endpapers and half title page. An excellent and sharp example. Near fine.
“Voyage in the Dark is something more terrible, more beautiful and more fiercely pitiful than any Jean Rhys has yet written. The book describes eighteen months in the life of a chorus girl - eighteen months during which she knows squalor, luxury, love, happiness, misery and, at the end, desperate pain. Told in the first person, the story of the struggles, forlorn gaiety and weary courage of Anna Morgan was the almost unbearable poignancy of truth unflinchingly described. The effect of being right inside the mind of this lonely girl is heightened by the interpolation, throughout her personal narrative, of retrospective memories of her childhood in a West Indian Island.
Voyage in the Dark succeeds perfectly in its difficult task of expressing simultaneously the mental and physical reactions of a human being to daily life, by deft interweaving of past and present.” (Publisher’s Blurb.)
Rhys' classic modernist novel remains widely wide and enduringly popular, almost one hundred years after its initial publication. Howard Moss of The New Yorker Magazine aptly summarised Jean Rhys’s novels when he stated they, “have the quality of the best books by seeming to have written themselves, and reading them one flinches at truth after truth."
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First Edition. 8vo., Publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket; priced at 5 shillings, a small Foyles Bookseller’s sticker to the front pastedown, pp. 219; plus 24 pp. of Publisher’s ads. Published by Constable (London), 1934.
Expert retouches and restorations to spine, upper edge, and joints, a very slight shelf lean, three tiny tears to page edges of the endpapers and half title page. An excellent and sharp example. Near fine.
“Voyage in the Dark is something more terrible, more beautiful and more fiercely pitiful than any Jean Rhys has yet written. The book describes eighteen months in the life of a chorus girl - eighteen months during which she knows squalor, luxury, love, happiness, misery and, at the end, desperate pain. Told in the first person, the story of the struggles, forlorn gaiety and weary courage of Anna Morgan was the almost unbearable poignancy of truth unflinchingly described. The effect of being right inside the mind of this lonely girl is heightened by the interpolation, throughout her personal narrative, of retrospective memories of her childhood in a West Indian Island.
Voyage in the Dark succeeds perfectly in its difficult task of expressing simultaneously the mental and physical reactions of a human being to daily life, by deft interweaving of past and present.” (Publisher’s Blurb.)
Rhys' classic modernist novel remains widely wide and enduringly popular, almost one hundred years after its initial publication. Howard Moss of The New Yorker Magazine aptly summarised Jean Rhys’s novels when he stated they, “have the quality of the best books by seeming to have written themselves, and reading them one flinches at truth after truth."
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.
First Edition. 8vo., Publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket; priced at 5 shillings, a small Foyles Bookseller’s sticker to the front pastedown, pp. 219; plus 24 pp. of Publisher’s ads. Published by Constable (London), 1934.
Expert retouches and restorations to spine, upper edge, and joints, a very slight shelf lean, three tiny tears to page edges of the endpapers and half title page. An excellent and sharp example. Near fine.
“Voyage in the Dark is something more terrible, more beautiful and more fiercely pitiful than any Jean Rhys has yet written. The book describes eighteen months in the life of a chorus girl - eighteen months during which she knows squalor, luxury, love, happiness, misery and, at the end, desperate pain. Told in the first person, the story of the struggles, forlorn gaiety and weary courage of Anna Morgan was the almost unbearable poignancy of truth unflinchingly described. The effect of being right inside the mind of this lonely girl is heightened by the interpolation, throughout her personal narrative, of retrospective memories of her childhood in a West Indian Island.
Voyage in the Dark succeeds perfectly in its difficult task of expressing simultaneously the mental and physical reactions of a human being to daily life, by deft interweaving of past and present.” (Publisher’s Blurb.)
Rhys' classic modernist novel remains widely wide and enduringly popular, almost one hundred years after its initial publication. Howard Moss of The New Yorker Magazine aptly summarised Jean Rhys’s novels when he stated they, “have the quality of the best books by seeming to have written themselves, and reading them one flinches at truth after truth."
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.