The Woman in White

The Woman in White is a painstakingly polite and exquisitely slow-paced novel. At first I could only read a page or two at a time, but I gradually got used to it and began to enjoy it. Putting the heavy-handedness of the circuitous plot aside, reading this sort of prose is its own type of pleasure.

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Anyway! The Woman in White is one of those long Victorian novels that you think is going to be boring but turns out to be a lot of fun. Again, I wouldn’t call it “Gothic,” but I still enjoyed reading it.