Gomberville Quotes

“Novelists always set up obstacles for lovers to overcome to make their eventual union all the more sastisfying, but Gomberville portrays love as a long, tedious ocean voyage to someplace miserable.”
― Steven Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800

“Sorel's novels deserve to be revived, but Polexander can be left in its watery grave.”
― Steven Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800