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I'm no expert on 19th century British literature, so take this with a big grain of salt, but the overly formal and detached, almost anthropological prose style was the book's most amusing feature. I'm not sure if that comedic touch was intentional or just par for 200 year old English novels, but I enjoyed it throughout. It reminded me of a Tom Perrotta novel like "Little Children" or "Election," which reads like an alien reporting on the behavior of a strange new species. Need to read more canon
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I actually, surprisingly, enjoyed this book! I am not going to make any misconceptions that I read this souly for the sake of entertainment, but only to have read the source materials before I could read "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" which is what I really wanted to read, but since I am a big believer in studying source material first, so to find out I actually enjoyed a book all about women being disadvantaged and forced to marry in society is rather surprising. I would have detested this b
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Fallback book for every bad day..
Feb 15, 2011
Toscane
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Tarina
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Ashley Trueblood
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