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This was a wild ride. The book, unlike most late 18th-century works, is not dull. It's a bit all over the place, overblown and ill-structured, and Lewis, like many young authors threw everything and the kitchen sink into it. It wants a tighter structure. As for the content, nothing shocking for modern readers, though at the time it was quite scandalous (think lust, sex, murder, rape, incest, ghosts, arson, and the list go ...more
This was a wild ride. The book, unlike most late 18th-century works, is not dull. It's a bit all over the place, overblown and ill-structured, and Lewis, like many young authors threw everything and the kitchen sink into it. It wants a tighter structure. As for the content, nothing shocking for modern readers, though at the time it was quite scandalous (think lust, sex, murder, rape, incest, ghosts, arson, and the list go ...more
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