The Weird Sisters A Romance Volume III Richard Dowling 9781530722365 Books
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The Weird Sisters A Romance Volume III Richard Dowling 9781530722365 Books
The final portion of the story ties up many loose ends. There is a lot of rambling and repetition in the story. Some characters are underdeveloped and the actual romance happens so fast, the reader doesn't feel a satisfactory closure. Upon finishing the three books, I thought of multiple ways to develop the side stories. Book 4 should have been written to slow the romance part down and develop additional characters that move from minor characters to major characters in the plot.Product details
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The Weird Sisters A Romance Volume III Richard Dowling 9781530722365 Books Reviews
(I published this review for all three volumes of this book)
This is the third of three volumes of one novel, as was typical in 1700-1800's publishing practices.
In brief, this work from the mid-1800's is the story of a good man lured into a series of progressively bad, then evil deeds, which haunt him until his end. The title is misleading, as it is neither a romance nor about sisters. In Victorian terms, this is a "lurid" novel with a slow, twisty plot that has almost no romance to it by today's standards. Think of it as in the line of Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Tell-Tale Heart" in novel length. More after I talk about the author a bit.
Richard Dowling, pen name for Marcus Fall, was an unsuccessful novelist of the Victorian era who turned out over 60 books, only a few of which are currently available. This book is the only free one on . Six more of his books are currently available on Project Gutenberg, which is the source for this edition. He was Irish, and said once that he could either write great novels (Dickens for example) or "unclean", which would sell, which is what he wrote. A brief biography is available here [...] or more can be found in Wikipedia. (I found this information after I read these three volumes and wondered about him and the odd title of the book.)
This novel is the story of Henry Walter "Wat" Grey, a small city banker in England in the days when small independent banks still existed. He inherits the bank from his father and runs it successfully until he loses a great sum of money in investing in the Confederate States during the American Civil War. Driven by the need to cover his losses, he proceeds to a series of coverups and embezzlements, culminating in the use of an old wealthy miser's money that was intended for his only daughter to keep the now-fallacious reputation of his bank's solvency alive.
When the old miser is dying, Wat is appointed executor and guardian of the then-20 year old daughter's money. Wat at this time is 45, and the temptation of marrying the young, completely sheltered 20 year old daughter to hide his disgrace overwhelms him and obsesses him to the point of further evil deeds and, ultimately, to his end.
The pace of the story is admittedly slow, almost to the point of exasperation, but it is rather compulsive reading. I did skip some parts where the descriptions of the obsessions of Wat became tiresome and added little to the advancement of the story, but I did finish it. I think the author intended the slowness to enhance the reader's understanding of how muddled this once-good man's thinking became. (Or it's just bad writing!)
It is not a long book although it is in three volumes, and can be read in one day.
I gave this book 4 stars because it is mostly well-written, and I did get drawn into the relentless downward spiral of Wat's mind to the point where I had to finish the book to see what the ending could be - other than the worst possible (he threatens suicide several times). The ending was rather just, I thought, and although not surprised by it, I was surprised at feeling relief that this man's self-caused sufferings were at an end without further damage to others.
Today's reader would probably find this book too slow or too overly-dramatic. But if you read -all- of "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights", you might enjoy this book. If you like Edgar Allan Poe, especially "The Tell-Tale Heart", this reads like an extended story of his. Great literature it is not, but it is a fairly well-told, twisty, creepy story leavened with some positive moments.
The story of a banker who commits a terrible crime to cover up another was engaging in the sense that I wanted to find out what happens, but it was not a very enjoyable read.
The final portion of the story ties up many loose ends. There is a lot of rambling and repetition in the story. Some characters are underdeveloped and the actual romance happens so fast, the reader doesn't feel a satisfactory closure. Upon finishing the three books, I thought of multiple ways to develop the side stories. Book 4 should have been written to slow the romance part down and develop additional characters that move from minor characters to major characters in the plot.
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