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swordsjew.bsky.social • 161 days ago

also: older/classic is better i think? but who knows

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swordsjew.bsky.social•161 days ago

i have, of course, read wuthering heights

chickenprincess.bsky.social•161 days ago

Have you read any Daphne du Maurier?

sarannmcd.bsky.social•161 days ago

Seconded

swordsjew.bsky.social•161 days ago

yes i loved rebecca and my cousin rachel

sarannmcd.bsky.social•161 days ago

Mary Elizabeth Brandon Lady Audley’s secret

sarannmcd.bsky.social•161 days ago

Braddon

chickenprincess.bsky.social•161 days ago

Margery Allingham? I really enjoyed The Crime at Black Dudley.

earvigenius.bsky.social•161 days ago

I'm not much into brooding heroes but a lot of my aquiantances seem to have liked Asmodeus from Aliette de Bodard's Dominion of the fallen. "Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders" might be a good stand-alona entry point for the style.

meganlee.bsky.social•161 days ago

Tenant of Wildfell Hall or Margot Livesey’s Flight of Gemma Hardy (retelling of Jane).
Also recommend Reader, I Murdered Him, told from Adele’s POV!

meganlee.bsky.social•161 days ago

https://www.betsycornwell.com/reader-i-murdered-him

averysafecat.bsky.social•161 days ago

OK, this is maybe a sidestep, but The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov?

swordsjew.bsky.social•161 days ago

that is hardly a book to stir the passions! at least for me. i read it for begemot the cat and the satire of soviet writers

averysafecat.bsky.social•161 days ago

To me it has the most heartbreakingly wonderful romantic ending… “They deserve peace, not the light”… but yr certainly not off-base.

penultimatetommywi.bsky.social•161 days ago

Stick with the same author, Villette.

kerenlavelle.bsky.social•161 days ago

I think it's a very small field, especially if it has to be written by a woman.

swordsjew.bsky.social•161 days ago

gothic romances with mean heroes in the style of mr rochester???? surely there are a number

kerenlavelle.bsky.social•161 days ago

Maybe in modern romantic lit there is, but not classic. (Unless you count Madame Bovary/Anna Karenina etc. Flawed woman trope.)
But I don't know anything about the former genre except it's always been disappointing.

kerenlavelle.bsky.social•161 days ago

Then I guess you've also read Wide Sargasso Sea

swordsjew.bsky.social•161 days ago

i just got it on kindle but im pissed theres no audiobook.

kerenlavelle.bsky.social•161 days ago

Wuthering Heights

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