Middlemarch is one of the books I want to read this season. I love these older, thicker books. I always stop and think of how challenging it was to write, publish, and distribute these books back in those times. It's hard for me to "complain" about having to sit through nearly 1000 pages worth of reading when it was such a challenge to write a book back in those days. I enjoyed your video. Thanks for sharing!
@layla2359
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Wilkie Colins is my favourite victorian author, so I'm always here for hearing you talk about his work! I don't think he gets enough love honestly, so I'm happy you are sharing him. More Wilkie!!!
@moonloversheila8238
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Mine too! I adore TWIW and have recommended it to so many people. It’s totally gripping.
@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace
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Congrats on 6k!! 😍 Yayy I'm glad the Necromancer turned out to be worth it 😂 I still can't believe it was 700 pages 😂😂
@paularobinson6722
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I've read Middlemarch twice--wonderful novel. Eliot isn't easy to read! Her shorter novel, Silas Marner, is a favorite of mine, but the prose style is challenging. If you can get past that, the plot, characterization, and irony are wonderful. Of course, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is brilliant, but it requires multiple readings to be fully appreciated. Chapter 39 is an absolute masterpiece. And then there's Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. People tend to forget that the original title is Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, which makes Jane's ultimate success something more than a romantic happy ending. When she directly addresses the reader at the end, it's clear that Jane is a writer. Jane has come to understand that her life is a worthy subject for a book and that she has value as a person. It's clear that she has, in fact, come a long way from her origins as poor, plain, and scorned by upper class society.
@borninabook
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Loving these shorter, focused videos, thank you! 🖤 I really enjoyed The Woman in White. Vanity Fair seems so intimidating to me. 😅
@Mikyshor2323
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I read The Woman in White because of you and it was a great experience 😁 I was hesitant to pick up Vanity Fair for a long time, but watching your video now I'm seriously considering giving it a shot. Thank you for the recs!!
@timstoomanybooks
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I got the distinct impression, when I read The Pickwick Papers, that Dickens suddenly started to like Mister Pickwick. I felt that it happened at about the same time that Sam Weller was introduced.
@sunshineseaandvitamind8620
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I agree with The Woman in the White it is a big book but you go through it so fast! I enjoyed it and finished it in a week.
@rebeccabsomanybooks3558
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Great recommendations, Presently reading Pickwick Papers and adore it. Definitely a lighter Dickens and a great beginner read. Plan on reading Woman in White soon.
@TheLiteraryApothecary
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Oh gosh. I had to read Vanity Fair in I think it was grad school and it felt like it would never end, yet I absolutely loved it
@Shellyish
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I just bought Middlemarch and plan to read it soon. I’m so glad it popped up on this list! ❤
@theresas709
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I also love The Woman in White and was surprised how fast I went through it. I am normally a slow reader.
@johnsaxongitno4life588
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Beautiful and amazing video love it and love the five books mentioned they are all amazing and fantastic books please stay safe and enjoy your reading love your family friend John ❤❤❤
@maryfilippou6667
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Yes! I Love Woman in White. Such a great young trio and Uncle/guardian like Emma's anasthenic Papa. This is like Old St Paul's set in the Great Fire and Plague. Wow! A tad melodramatic toward end, but a page Turner. I have another one too. Forget Victorian male authors A name.
@londonlemons
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The Pickwick Papers and Vanity Fair are two of my all time favorite books! I adore humor in classics, it really adds to the experience for me. I would love to check out The Necromancer too!
@jobuckley2999
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Stellar video. Succinct and thoughtful. Thanks.
@janebaily3758
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Thanks a bunch for these recommendations!! I will definitely give Wilkie Collins another try. Read Moonstone a LONG LONG time ago...and like the other suggestions as well!
@josmith5992
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Some of these huge Victorian novels are my favorites Jennifer, in fact my first real introduction to Victorian lit was a college course on Bleak House and Vanity Fair. I fell in love with both, I’ve read Vanity Fair three times now and would class it as a favorite book and am due for a reread of Bleak House next year. Middlemarch is also a favorite so definitely agree these big books are worth the time!
@martasgreatlibrary
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i am also weirdly fond of the pickwick papers!!! i think my fondness has also grown over time since i remember really wanting the book to end when i had 200 pages or so left but i know look back with so much love and good memories to my reading experience!!
@shannon4521
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Some great recs. I love Wilkie Collins as well, even though so far I’ve only read The Moonstone, I really gelled with his style. I now have The woman in white, The Law and the lady and No name.
@TooFondofBooksJH
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I just finished a non-fiction book about Reynolds. It is called "Victorian England Best-Selling Author" by Stephen Basdeo. I had never heard of Reynolds before but apparently, he was very popular in his own period.
@jenniferbrooks
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I’m going to have to check that out!
@LuminousLibro
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A bunch of these are my favorite books too!
@melissahouse1296
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Ah so glad you loved VF Becky Sharpe was a blast! & such a refreshing change lol! 🤗 The 2018 (Olivia Cooke) adaptation was excellent really captured the spirit. Im reading Daniel Deronda (which i already like more than MMarch 👍) but at 810pgs it'll prolly be all i read for Vic.. 🤓🙂
@moonloversheila8238
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The Woman in White is my favourite too. It’s stunning. I try to reread it every 2 years and even had to buy another copy as my first one had fallen to bits! I highly recommend it.
@adolphsanchez1429
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I have always wanted to read Middlemarch as I always liked Eliot's Silas Marner. I listened to the audiobook of The Woman in White, and I liked it but feel I might have liked it more if I read it rather than listened to the audiobook. I am familiar with some of the penny dreadful stories (such as Varney the Vampyre), but I have rarely seen any listed on various literary/critics' lists, so I will look into Reynolds and his work.
@katewilson592
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Thank you for adding Vanity Fair to your list.
@paulzenev4346
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Now you should read more 19th century novel set during the era of Napoleon. "War and Peace", the only one I have read. And now I really want to read "Vanity Fair". Dumas wrote several. Stendhal. Hugo's "Les Mes.." BTW - TY..!!
@sofia-kf6rh
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Such a pretty thumbnail!
@laracroft1829
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I’m currently reading Vanity Fair. I’m passed the mid point. This is my second try and I know this time I’ll finish it. I really like Becky, the writing and the humor in some parts of the narration. At some point I’ll give Middlemarch a try, I’m intimidated by the writer.
@richardgribbin9641
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Have to say I am beginning to struggle just a bit with Pickwick Papers. Can anyone advise to persevere from half way through?
@lisainbookland
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Vanity Fair really is such a great book when you get into it! Becky is wonderfully awful.
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