One of the things that, for me, qualifies a novel as being a good one is if on getting to the end of it one feels that a reread would deliver more from it without its becoming boring. For example, most of Dickens novels are that way for me, the only exception being
Bleak House which for me moves as slowly and tediously as the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case in its background.
I have to say that
Babette's Feast, although a short story and as I have said I am not a fan of short stories, holds that measure of quality for me. So I may even read it again; heaven knows I may even sometime have a go at the whole
Anecdotes of Destiny collection
.