The Female Quixote (Penguin Classics)
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9780141958613
Publish date: September 28th 2006
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 532
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
English Literature,
18th Century
This was fun, mostly because it's a satire that can no longer pain anyone (directly). The romances upon which Arabella is so fixated are long since gone from popular culture. The assumptions she wrongly draws from them (because of her isolation) - that men die of love, and women have to pardon them ...
Part of graduate school. It was ok but parts were dreadfully boring.