Name That Novel!

[David]

This thread will probably wither & die on the vine, but I thought we'd play . . .

NAME THAT VICTORIAN NOVEL!!

"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls deified among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds."

[EnchantedSLN]

Bleak House!

[AliP]

How about this:

"From the very beginning, from the first moment, I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I have not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."

[Moony]

erm, could that be the horror known as Jane Eyre?

[jadegypsy]

Ali P: is that P&P?

[AliP]

Originally Posted by Moony

erm, could that be the horror known as Jane Eyre?

Nope, much better!

[AliP]

Originally Posted by jadegypsy

Ali P: is that P&P?

Righto! Good Job. My fave book (And of course the A&E P&P with Colin Firth rules!)

[DownOnRodeo]

Wow, Dickens really had something against fog, didn't he. Great idea for a thread David.

I'd like to join in but I avoid those old books like the plague.

[dissention]

"Year by year the Soldiers and Artisans began more vehemently to assert -- and with increasing truth -- that there was no great difference between them and the very highest class of Polygons, now that they were raised to an equality with the latter, and enabled to grapple with all the difficulties and solve all the problems of life, whether Statical or Kinetical, by the simple process of Colour Recognition. Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling. Soon, they began to insist that inasmuch as Colour, which was a second Nature, had destroyed the need of aristocratic distinctions, the Law should follow in the same path, and that henceforth all individuals and all classes should be recognized as absolutely equal and entitled to equal rights."

[hayley]

That's Abbott's Flatland.

YUCK

[dissention]

Originally Posted by hayley

That's Abbott's Flatland.

YUCK

Yup. I like some of it, though. It's quite clever in spots.