clarylovesbooks 's review for:

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

4.0

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I had to read this for my English Lit class, and it turned out to be such a pleasant surprise! I wasn't expecting too much from this book, but Fowles did such a good job at recreating the atmosphere at the characters of a typical Victorian novel, and I love how the narrator would sneak in at times to comment on 19th century's way of thinking and behaviour. It felt like I reading a Thomas Hardy's novel, and by reading this, you can clearly see that he was the main inspiration behind this story.