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Could This Guy Possibly Be More Ridiculous?

Caleb Williams by William Godwin

September 8, 2024 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr16 bingo Fiasco Well this was a hot mess and a half.  Now I have read many a 17th and 18th century book, but this was a whole different thing.  This was written in 1794, to be sure, but only fifteen years later, Jane Austin was publishing novels that were immensely readable with characters to whom we can relate even to this day.  Godwin?  Not so much.  There was a serviceable plot here, to be sure, but buried under mountains of verbose nonsense.  And the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 18th cent British Lit, cbr16 fiasco, Could you grovel more?, Makes the minions look like stalwart heroes, stand aside son and let the ladies show you how to write, What the hell am I even reading?, William Godwin

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 18th cent British Lit, cbr16 fiasco, Could you grovel more?, Makes the minions look like stalwart heroes, stand aside son and let the ladies show you how to write, What the hell am I even reading?, William Godwin ·
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