Victorian
- Dec 31, 2013
A Tale Of Two Cities
- Dec 31, 2013
Jane Eyre
- Dec 31, 2013
Pride And Prejudice
- Dec 31, 2013
The Pickwick Papers
- May 19, 2023
Wuthering HeightsI had to read this to better understand Hark! A Vagrant. And now I do! Everyone was so much more awful than I was expecting, and it kept getting worse. Great book
- Jul 18, 2023
Tess Of The DUrbervillesExcellently written compassionate treatment, love the murder, its funny
- Sep 13, 2023
MiddlemarchFlorid prose and a large cast of well-rounded characters with an interplay of politics, politicking, ethics and romance that just doesn't quite hit the spot for me, in the end. I mean I enjoyed it, it is by any account quite good, but it ultimately didn't leave me with much. I think maybe a great book leaves me a bit discombobulated, a cartoon character with birds flying around my head or something, leaves me dwelling on the characters and plot or, in the best cases, leaves me dwelling on reality and my position within it. For a 700 page tome, for something making the wikipedia page on the history of the novel, I had higher hopes for this. For 700 pages really it should just be great, shouldn't it? Kind of reminds me of Tolstoy, an intricately constructed interconnected weave of characters giving weight to an emotional situation that slightly misses the mark when it comes to emotional resonance...meaning I suppose that if this does hit the mark for emotional resonance for you, I can imagine it being an incredibly fulfilling novel.