thenewyorkbookshelf 's review for:

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

2.0

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This book gave me an entryway into Victorian literature as after I read it I found reading books that were actually written in the Victorian era much easier to decipher. I disliked Charles' perspective and would love to have read from Sarah's point of view, but alas I see that would have ruined the mystery. The painting of Sarah as something devilish does shed life on the ideologies of the time, but it made me uncomfortable when reading it the way Charles would change his thoughts on her in a flash.