Four stars for a work of fiction that is set in a world which can still resonate with the events in the world today, characters who have meaningful conversations/arguements and the lovers have a happy ending.I might have given it five stars if the ending hadn't been so abrupt and there had been a be...
So, in clearing the decks for NaNoWriMo, I tried to crash-read NORTH AND SOUTH by Elizabeth Gaskell, and, no surprise, it didn't work. Gaskell’s writing demands a slow read, tasting all her clear phrases and cogent observations. And I know I said this earlier about MARY BARTON, but it reads so darn ...
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