I love the Mill ending!
― abcfsk, Thursday, 21 May 2020 08:35 (three years ago) link
I like the Trollope’s parliamentary novels but ‘Can you forgive her?’ is a drag. Alice Vavasor has to be the worst female character in Victorian fiction. I started rereading the series recently and it’s no wonder she gets dropped from adaptations. Her whole will she won’t she vacillation is infuriating.
I think Silas Mattner is the pick for me, although I have fond memories of journey to centre of the earth and didn’t realise it was so early. I’d assumed it was 1890s.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
Humiliated And Insulted by Fyodor Dostoevsky would be a good song title
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:55 (three years ago) link
The Palliser novels blur, but I guess that's the point. The Way We Live Now, which isn't in the series, is probably my favorite.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 May 2020 10:56 (three years ago) link
I need to restart my reread of the Parliamenty series, got diverted by rereading the Patrick O’Brien novels, but I think Phineas Finn is my favourite novel and character.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link
That's the first I read.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
dow -- thanks, and yes going straight for Middlemarch.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
Amazing how this suddenly gets SO much more "currently canonical" when you cross 1860. Anyway, Can You Forgive Her? for me. Les Miserables and Great Expectations are both probably great but also both ruined for me by enforced middle-school reading when I couldn't grasp them.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 21 May 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 22 May 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Oh wow, middle school? They wait until high school to drop the classics on us in Portugal.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 22 May 2020 09:40 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 23 May 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Well this is an upset!
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 23 May 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
Can you forgive them?
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of… the 1860's, pt.2 (1865-1869)
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link