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Josh Brown
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Chapter 35 - the description of the reading of Featherstone's will and the cluster of jealous and petty relatives hovering - seems like the best of its genre, like the 19th century prose version of a set piece from Homer about a sacrificial feast
— Jul 14, 2022 07:00PM
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Josh Brown
is on page 439 of 880
“In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.”
— Jul 15, 2022 06:57AM
Josh Brown
is on page 225 of 880
As cerebral as this book is, I find the unhappy honeymoon in Rome sequence very familiar and physically realized (though very few physical details or descriptions really are included)
— Jul 13, 2022 07:48AM
Josh Brown
is on page 125 of 880
The main characters are all more sympathetic (even Celia and Causabon) than I remember. This may be because I am older and more willing to see that others’ lives which are different from mine aren’t necessarily stupid (though obviously Dorothea has this problem, and one thing I truly do identify with in her is that judgment reflex (like about Sir Chettam), which can be much less voluntary than it seems.
— Jul 12, 2022 02:49PM
