I've given this book too many reads to count, since it's central in my dissertation. If you like eighteenth-century literature, this is a great text about a "woman in distress."

i had to read this book for a class, and therefore was not super excited. little did i know it would be a wild ride with twists and turns, i would be laughing out loud in public, gasping in the middle of the night, and i just barely managed to finish it through my sobbing tears just now. ten out of

i read this after hearing prof. john bender digress briefly about it. he was right that it was emotionally tortured -- but so compelling, like an opera in letters. her exquisitely sensitive manners just make it that much more torture, in a way that reminds me oddly of the remains of the day.

A story of troubled love from the 18th century that shows us a lot of things about the customs of the time. The book's heroine knows love at an early age but quickly realizes that her beloved is not exactly the knight with the shining armor. This perception then follows her as she understands that t