1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Roxana
  • Moll Flanders
  • Love In Excess
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • A Tale of a Tub
  • Oroonoko
  • The Princess of Cleves

Saturday, June 4, 2011

31. The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox

I enjoyed this novel, published in 1752.  Like Don Quixote, Arabella has read too many romances and sees a mysterious stranger in every passerby.  Her faithful lover despairs of ever persuading her otherwise, but with the help of friends she eventually accepts that romantic conventions (such as duelling for the honor of a lady) no longer apply.

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