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        The French Lieutenant's Woman


        setting

        England

        time

        Mid-19th century

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1969

        page count

        445

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Sarah Woodruff

        Rip's impressions

        Compelling love story, though a bit long. You will want to skip and skim.

        first line

        An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay -- Lyme Bay being that largest byte from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg -- and a person of curiousity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.

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