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vickar 's review for:

3.0

3.5 rounded down. The essay that gives name to this book is sharp, witty, and extremely funny. However, some of the other essays (specially the one about Madam Sable), are extremely dull, being just a recount of the lives of George's contemporaries.
I also don't appreciate the lack of translation for the extracts in French and German, since for non-native speakers, the mannerisms of the period makes them extremely difficult to understand.