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Originally Posted by jackm8
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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Now that's a book that wasn't on my radar! Even though it fits as a book that I read back in the day and is only the barest glimmer to me now. It a period I love, too, and I know enough about it that I understand the background and the unsaid. Yet while it'sold enough and long enough, I want to feel I'm improving my mind, at least a scootch, i.e., it doesn't have quite the heft (other than physical) I'm looking for.
But thanks for the trip down memory lane and I think I'll download it at that, for dipping into purposes.