Middlemarch
Florid 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...
Victorian
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Excellently written compassionate treatment, love the murder, its funny* how some mores seem so foreign and unimaginable and some mores seem to persist so strongly. I think what I found most brilliant was the different moral perspectives that Hardy sets...
Wuthering Heights
I 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
The Pickwick Papers
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol
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