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Originally Posted by Catlady
I would have liked SOME drama or melodrama instead of the droning on about souls and salvation.
Somehow I had the vague notion that there would be gothic elements, that the house itself would figure more prominently, be a bit ghostly and more atmospheric. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall would be a great title for a book about a house with a ghostly tenant, after all.
So that was a disappointment. But as much as I disliked the characters and the wordiness and elements of the plot, for some reason I can't articulate, I sort of enjoyed the book anyway, and I'm looking at Agnes Grey (which is happily much shorter).
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I agree
Catlady - despite all the "souls and salvation" aspect, I quite enjoyed reading the book and didn't find it as turgid as some have done. I just felt it could have been a better book than it was, by the simple expedient of a third person omniscient narrator.
Indeed, the idea of using letters to tell a story is I think an older style of novel-writing. It was used for example by Jane Austen in her early book
Lady Susan, but not in her six most famous books, which are all third person.