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Domina (Biblioteca) (Spanish Edition)

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This, I understand, was Barbara Wood's first foray into literature, and pretty good for a first effort. Even as a woman myself, however, I found the feminist tone rather overwhelming. Such stuff was highly fashionable during the early eighties, when this book first came out. The style seemed more melodramatic than I like, and the dialogue sometimes shallow, sometimes contrived. Samantha Hargrave's life story is too crushing. The best things about this book, which I first read a few years ago and just finished for the second time, were the anecdotal presentation of what it was like for a woman to struggle through medical school and beyond in the late nineteenth century, and the haunting love story. Out of the dozens and dozens of books I have read, this is one of the comparative few that has made it into my personal collection.

El libro me gustó, aunque me hubiera gustado más si hubiera sido un poco más completo,la historia de una mujer en los inicios cuando le estaba vedada el estudio de la medicina,su lucha por triunfar en un mundo de hombres,su lucha por el amor y por una medicina más humana, me hubiera gustado una historia un poco más terminada pues siento como que todo está en camino todavía y aunque asi es la realidad,ya la protagonista de la historia había pasado demasiadas vicisitudes y merecía un poco más de felicidad.Al menos esa es mi opinión. El Fuego de la Vida y Las Virgenes del Paraíso, de la misma autora, me han gustado más.