Review: The Return of Martin Guerre
User Review - Michael - GoodreadsThis is an interesting experiment in an academic historian writing a more “accessible” piece by focusing on a dramatic story. The project began, according to the introduction, with Davis serving as a ... Read full review
Review: The Return of Martin Guerre
User Review - Kaileigh - GoodreadsAn interesting story, but the writing was poor. I read it for a class and felt like reading about it on the internet was more informative than the book. Read full review
Review: The Return of Martin Guerre
User Review - Rebecca - GoodreadsIncredibly intriguing. This is an incredibly rare and intimate glimpse into a culture we never get to hear much about. It is very well-written to boot. Read full review
Review: The Return of Martin Guerre
User Review - Yanet - GoodreadsMy god it was sooooo hard to start this book. Read full review
Review: The Return of Martin Guerre
User Review - Reed - GoodreadsA Paideia book. A decent read. I wrote a decent paper on this book - Character versus Reputation. Read full review
Review: The Return of Martin Guerre
User Review - Colleen - GoodreadsWhile I appreciated Natalie Davis' attempt to bring agency to sixteenth-century peasant women, I thought that her historical inventiveness overstepped a few times. I think she relied too heavily on ... Read full review
Review: The Return of Martin Guerre
User Review - Annemarie Donahue - GoodreadsThis got a lot better after the first chapter. I actually really enjoyed her story-telling technique. This was a good collection of folkloric data to give the tale of Martin Guerre some cultural and historical context. I really have to recommend it. Read full review
Review: The Return of Martin Guerre
User Review - Lyndsey - GoodreadsDavis gives an accessible and fascinating account of the strange case of Martin Guerre. She makes some assumptions and leaps of logic, but considering the dearth of documents she had to work with, the ... Read full review
Review: The Return of Martin Guerre
User Review - Dan Allosso - GoodreadsWhile Davis rightly argues that the rich settings and thorough backgrounds and back-stories help us enter the world these characters inhabited, this creates an air of narrative omniscience. Davis ... Read full review
Review: The Return of Martin Guerre
User Review - Justin - GoodreadsInteresting concept, lousy book. Read full review
