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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of V. S. Naipaul.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Derek Walcott.

Examines the life and literary career of Jean Rhys and discusses how her professional and personal life are reflected in her writings.

Twelve-year-old Serenity has a recurring nightmare, but things get real when her parents take her brother, Peace, to Duppy Island for "treatment" and Serenity is confronted by the creepy Dr. Whisper and the faceless douen children who are trapped between the living and the dead.

Inspired by, but independent of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the story of the first Mrs. Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Bront??'s Jane Eyre.

Readers are invited to discover the countries of the Caribbean: their history, natural features, economies, people and cultures, and important cities.

After a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.

After a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.

Nineteen Caribbean specialists profile the native people of the Caribbean region, discussing their social organization, religion, language, lifestyle, and cultural contributions.