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Consider Sinister Street. It is long and just fits 100 year requirement. It's pretty much forgotten now, but was considered a major success and influence at the time of publication. Gustave Flaubert type mix of realism and romanticism, with plenty of exceptionally well written purple prose. I'm not sure if the protagonist is such a pompous snob intentionally, or he's just the mirror of the writer at the time of writing. Either way, I ended especially enjoying all those over the top passages.
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