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by William Harrison Ainsworth (Author)
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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services; New edition edition (13 Mar 1980)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0586050957
  • ISBN-13: 978-0586050958
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the great Victorian supernatural novels by a once famous author., 18 Dec 2009
This review is from: The Lancashire Witches (Paperback)
Each to his own. I first read this book as a teenager.Up till then I thought that all Victorian books were heavy,long winded tomes.Suddenly I discover this exciting historical romance full of atmosphere and excitement and,amongst all these historical characters demons appear with glowing eyes! Simply marvellous,one of THE great British supernatural novels,and,like allot of Harrison Ainsworth's work,sadly neglected.This is the kind of book that Penguin or Oxford Classics could re-publish as a paperback,preferably with the original illustrations by Cruikshank.The opening of the book on Pendle Hill,is tremendous;no long winded Dickensian rambling here,Ainsworth,the Master storyteller,who was one of Victorian England's top selling authors takes the reader right in.
I particularly love the way Ainsworth mixes conventional historical romance with elements of Gothic fiction.If you enjoy this book,Ainsworth's 'Windsor Castle'features Herne the Hunter amongst all the expected characters & might be a good follow up.
Incidentally,Ainsworth,apparently, 'invented' Dick Turpin's famous ride to York in his once famous book about the highwayman,'Rookwood'.
All in all,wonderful stuff,if you like Victorian supernatural fiction of the Gothic kind & want something a bit more racy than David Copperfield!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Justly forgotten author, 12 Oct 2009
By Graham R. Hill "gralhill" (Ilkley) - See all my reviews
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I came across a reference to Ainsworth in the Financial Times and bought this, one of the works most admired during his lifetime, in the hope of discovering a lost masterpiece. Hindsight, being as usual a wonderful thing, makes me realise that there is of course a perfectly good reason why this author has all but disappeared. In fact there are probably many reasons. However, let me just give you two: firstly the turgid, expository writing style full of scenes where lifelong friends greet each other with a long summary of the current political situation and an even longer thesis on the latest theological disputes; secondly the attempted phonetic rendition of what Ainsworth presumably believes was the local dialect around Pendle Hill in the sixteenth century. The first fault renders the whole of the book unreadable for pleasure; the second renders much of it completely unintelligible whatever one's motive.
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