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Reading this 650-page tome in less than a week left me with hands sore from its weight and a sense of accomplishment. Did I identify with Isabel Archer, the novel's heroine? No. Did I find the story compelling? Yes. Was its ending satisfying? Not exactly. But then, I don't want to give anything away.
This is a story of Innocence, Love, Affairs, Divorce, Choices. I suggest propping it up with a pillow to save wounded hand muscles.
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I was assigned to read this novel for a graduate course, but its story kept me turning pages. The romance, the intrigue, the mysteries and racial tensions and ideological debates, deeply felt, kept me ploughing through difficult Creole dialects and other bits of antiquity. A compelling novel about a way of a life two hundred years old, but not so old after all.
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The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James
cinderella w, February 4, 2008
Reading this 650-page tome in less than a week left me with hands sore from its weight and a sense of accomplishment. Did I identify with Isabel Archer, the novel's heroine? No. Did I find the story compelling? Yes. Was its ending satisfying? Not exactly. But then, I don't want to give anything away.This is a story of Innocence, Love, Affairs, Divorce, Choices. I suggest propping it up with a pillow to save wounded hand muscles.
(5 of 12 readers found this comment helpful)
Grandissimes : a Story of Creole Life (88 Edition) by George Wahington Cable
cinderella w, February 4, 2008
I was assigned to read this novel for a graduate course, but its story kept me turning pages. The romance, the intrigue, the mysteries and racial tensions and ideological debates, deeply felt, kept me ploughing through difficult Creole dialects and other bits of antiquity. A compelling novel about a way of a life two hundred years old, but not so old after all.(9 of 12 readers found this comment helpful)