[books 2014] Wilkie Collins
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inulro10. The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
My two favourite Victorian novels are (predictably) The Woman in White and The Moonstone.
This is nowhere near as long and ambitious, or as good. It's straight-up gothic melodrama. It's a real page-turner, and a quick and easy read, but doesn't come off well these days because it's too reliant on Fate (with a capital F) making things happen, and people letting it.
Given that it's late Victorian fare, I suspect very much that criticism was leveled at it at the time too.
My two favourite Victorian novels are (predictably) The Woman in White and The Moonstone.
This is nowhere near as long and ambitious, or as good. It's straight-up gothic melodrama. It's a real page-turner, and a quick and easy read, but doesn't come off well these days because it's too reliant on Fate (with a capital F) making things happen, and people letting it.
Given that it's late Victorian fare, I suspect very much that criticism was leveled at it at the time too.
