As you can tell from my status updates on GoodReads, this book took me a ridiculously long time to get through. It was actually for my Vic Lit book club (not school), and the week I had for Thanksgiving wound up being ridiculous, so I've only just had the chance to finish it. Despite the amount of t...
I have very conflicting views of the main characters. On one hand, I feel very sorry for Lucy. She's a victim of her past; she has been through sad times. However, while George was a total prick for leaving his wife and child, I didn't justify that being a good reason to take the man's life. Sure, h...
Since this is one of those books that to tell too much of the story would ruin it, I'm only giving you the bare bones. Baronet Sir Michael Audley takes himself a young, beautiful (but penniless) wife, but his eighteen year old daughter Alicia is not quite so enthralled with Lucy's charms. Sir Michae...
When sensation novels burst upon a quiescent England these novels became immediate best sellers, surpassing all previous book sales records. However, high brow critics writing in academic journals of the day decried the phenomenon and criticized its practitioners (and readers) in the harshest terms....
I intended to like this book more then I did. It was a good story -- really it was. It was just pure torture for me to read the whole thing knowing full well what would happen at the end. No surprises...poor Alicia!I'll stick with Wilkie Collins in the future, thank you very much.
A Victorian gothic novel. I love the detailed descriptions of each character, and how cleverly Lady Audley has managed everything so far. She's a very sly young lady, and I wish she'd win, as opposed to being the object lesson in a morality tale. Le sigh. This is a frustrating novel to read, bec...
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