I tried resisting this. It has its occasional heavy-handedness and there are some stretches (the Rossettis, for example, please!), but the prose is so wonderful, the story(ies) is rich like cake and the intrusive author with his Victorian reflections so companionable that all I could do when I finis...
This book is very hard to describe, so you should probably just read it to find out why I gave it five stars. However, I can say that the joy of this book isn't in the plot or the characters, but in the deliciously saucy narrator, who is a kind of meta-character himself. Didn't expect to enjoy this ...
Although this novel was not written in the Victorian era, it is set there and deals with many aspects of that era. In essence, the novel is about a man named Charles who is often considered honorable and has made an engagement to Ernestina Freeman, yet finds himself very attracted to a woman know t...
I wanted to read The French Lieutenant’s’s Woman because A. S. Byatt mentioned the book so often in her essay collections. While I like the book, I’m not sure I see it as the wonderful, great novel that many people believe it to be. Part of the reason, undoubtably, is that my exceptions were very...
I read this book when I was a teenager and it was a hot best seller.I found it a slow, boring read and was thoroughly irritated by the rather pompous self-centred main character. I tend not to be very appreciative of stories that romanticise men who are obsessed with what they can't have.
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