Don't forget Dickens! I worship Austen and adore Charles Dickens. I've read them all. The lovely thing about Dickens is that there are so many novels! Many of them are worthy of rereading. I was introduced to him in a class taught by a talented scholar when I was in my thirties.
In between raising children and Labradors, running a house and entertaining my husband's clients I was a student who took doctoral exams in my forties. 19th C British lit is one of the wonders of the world. I include George Eliot in the wondrous category.
Don't forget Dickens! I worship Austen and adore Charles Dickens. I've read them all. The lovely thing about Dickens is that there are so many novels! Many of them are worthy of rereading. I was introduced to him in a class taught by a talented scholar when I was in my thirties.
In between raising children and Labradors, running a house and entertaining my husband's clients I was a student who took doctoral exams in my forties. 19th C British lit is one of the wonders of the world. I include George Eliot in the wondrous category.
If you want to go hard core, try Walter Scott - often crazy dense, but once through that, a world of experience.
I read a couple last year. Incredible stuff.
Right? Just a bit of perseverance
Ivanhoe required no perseverance at all!
Fair point. Quentin Durwood neither. Woodstock, Heart of Midlothian, maybe more so