I don't know. I just don't know. In someways this was my kind of book, in some ways it wasn't. I'd probably give this more of a 3.5 rating.It's a thick Victorian set mystery. The book is read as a confession, of course told in the first person. So in that way I had to view it a bit differently. Some...
Phoebus Rainsford Daunt, we learn from this book's alleged editor (one J.J. Antrobus,* who claims to have discovered the collection of quarto-leaf pages making up the "confession" reproduced herein amidst a series of papers recently left to Cambridge University Library), was a 19th century poet who,...
Written in the style and voice of an author from mid 1850s England. Pretty good I guess, maybe a 7/10. Even though much of its bulk was because of the overblown phrasings of the period, it still could have been edited a bit more severely. It begs the interesting question of how much extraneous de...
A mystery set in Victorian England that is dark, revelatory, and compelling. It does take some effort to get through the language, but the author does it so well that I was enthralled from begining to end. It's not for everyone, but if you want a very satisfying historical read, this should fit the ...
This pseudo-Victorian study in thwarted ambition is a literary tour de force. It's the tale of the rightful heir to one of the most powerful houses in England, brought up in anonymity, who learns of his true identity by chance and embarks on an all-consuming struggle to reclaim his inheritance. Th...
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