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\n2018  \nNEWHEWAS4GNNGAREALY LONELY  \nGRL-ALCURVES,CURLS.HEARI4NDHDDEN  \nCAWS.  \nJEAN RHYS  \nBorn I890,Roseau,Dominica  \nDied I979,Exeter,England  \n\"The Day They Burned the Books'and Till SeptemberPetronella’were first published in Tigers Are Better-Looking(1968);and 'Rapunzel,Rapunzel'and 'T Used to Live HereOnce'in Sleep it Off,Lady (I976).They can all be found inThe Collected Short Stories (2017).  \nRHYS IN PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICSAfter Leaving Mr MackenzieThe Collected Short StoriesGood Morning,MidnightQuartet  \nSmile Please:An Unfinished AutobiographyVoyage in the DarkWide Sargasso Sea  \nJEAN RHYS  \n# Till September Petronella\n\nPENGUIN CLASSICS  \nUK |USA |Canada |Ireland |AustraliaIndia |New Zealand |South Africa  \nPenguin Books is part of the Penguin Random House groupof companies whose addresses can be found atglobal.penguinrandomhouse.com.  \nPenguin  \nRandom HouseUK  \nThis selection first published 2018  \nCopyright CI960,I962,I963,I966,I967.I976 byJean Rhys  \nThe moral rights of the author have been asserted  \nAll rights reserved  \nSet in 10.25/I2.75 pt Dante MT StdTypeset by Jouve(UK),Milton KeynesPrinted in Great Britain by Clays Ltd,St Ives plc  \nISBN:978-0-241-33758-5  \nwwwgreenpenguin.couk  \nPenguin Random House is committed to asustainable future for our business,our readersand our planet.This book is made from ForestStewardship Council certihed paper.  \nContents  \nThe Day They Burned the BooksTill September PetronellaRapunzel,RapunzelI Used to Live Here Once  \nI  \nIO  \n45  \n52  \n100  \n# The Day They Burned the Books\n\nMy friend Eddie was a small,thin boy.You could see the blueveins in his wrists and temples.People said that he had con-sumption and wasn'tlongfor this world.Iloved,but sometimesdespised him.  \nHis father,Mr Sawyer,was a strange man.Nobody couldmake out what he was doing in our part of the world at all.He was not a planter or a doctor or a lawyer or a banker.Hedidn'tkeepa store.He wasn't a schoolmaster or a governmentofficial.He wasn’t-that was the point-a gentleman.We hadseveral resident romantics who had fallen in love with themoon on the Caribees-they were all gentlemen and quiteunlike Mr Sawyer who hadn’'t an h'in his composition.Besides,he detested the moon and everything else about theCaribbean and he didn't mind telling you so.  \nHe was agent for a small steamshipline which in those dayslinked up Venezuela and Trinidad with the smaller islands,buthe couldn't make much out of that.He must have a privateincome,people decided,but they never decided why he hadchosen to settle in a place he didn't like and to marry a col-oured woman.Though a decent,respectable,nicely educatedcoloured woman,mind you.  \nJean Rhys  \nMrs Sawyer must have been very pretty once but,what withone thing and another,that was in days gone by.  \nWhen Mr Sawyer was drunk-this often happened-heused to be very rude to her.She never answered him.  \nLook at the nigger showing off,'he would say;and shewould 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