Voyage in the Dark

novel by Rhys

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Voyage in the Dark is a novel by Jean Rhys, published in 1934. The novel is set in the bohemian world of Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Rhys, a West Indian novelist, is known for her early works that captured this era. Voyage in the Dark is one of her earlier novels, preceding her later acclaimed work, Wide Sargasso Sea. The story explores themes common in Rhys's writing, often focusing on the experiences of women in challenging social and personal circumstances.12

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Jean Rhys
Mackenzie (1931), Voyage in the Dark (1934), and Good Morning, Midnight (1939).
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English literature
The literature of World War I and the interwar period
…reprinted as Quartet in 1969), Voyage in the Dark (1934), and Good Morning, Midnight (1939), Rhys depicted the lives of vulnerable women adrift in London and Paris, vulnerable because they were poor and because the words in which they innocently believed—honesty in relationships, fidelity in marriage—proved in practice to be…
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…reprinted as Quartet in 1969), Voyage in the Dark (1934), and Good Morning, Midnight (1939), Rhys depicted the lives of vulnerable women adrift in London and Paris, vulnerable because they were poor and because the words in which they innocently believed—honesty in relationships, fidelity in marriage—proved in practice to be…
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