...On second thought maybe I should stick with the shorter 18th century novels for now. Both of those are Very Long.
You know you want to! Well, probably not. Although I can say that Udolpho gets much livelier after the first 250 pages. Up till then it depends how you feel about descriptions of nature. But it does contain some 100% skippable poetry so is slightly less long than it appears!
:-D
(I think my reading my Gothics in order helped, because seeing how The Old English Baron came out of Otranto, and Udolpho out of them both, helped me appreciate it more than I would otherwise have done.)
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Date: 2019-10-30 08:33 pm (UTC)You know you want to! Well, probably not. Although I can say that Udolpho gets much livelier after the first 250 pages. Up till then it depends how you feel about descriptions of nature. But it does contain some 100% skippable poetry so is slightly less long than it appears!
:-D
(I think my reading my Gothics in order helped, because seeing how The Old English Baron came out of Otranto, and Udolpho out of them both, helped me appreciate it more than I would otherwise have done.)