![]() ![]() One LA professor tried reading just the tale of Esther alone to opinionate on its validity he declared it did work well enough, but that is to align this more with the social works of Jane Austen or the pilgrimages of Thomas Hardy’s women without giving it the full grandeur of its social commentary as setting. Jo’s story could almost be self standing on its own, the parallel constellation to Esther’s. Trying to keep all the twists and turns of the plot across the equivalent of say binge watching half a year of East Enders or Coronation Street is a small feat in itself. Perhaps its sheer length and scale have mitigated against its reputation in a pantheon of English writing, this is King Lear writ large, even you might argue Lady Dedlock herself is a Queen Lear, the femme fatale. Beyond the frivolity we have passages of dark horror, even fear, naked drama. We have a literary variation on a Swiss watch with all the little interlocking wheels starting to spin. ![]() ![]() BY page 593 this gargantuan torture wheel of a plot is starting to turn. ![]()
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