Shake me up Judy Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 Jeez, some ignorance about classic Victorian novelists here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 I enjoyed the Deemster and the Manxman when I read them. But I was going through an Arnold Bennett and Emile Zola phase at the time. Speaking of Manx Accents has anyone heard the ones in Nandor Phelnge and the Talking Mongoose? Wild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shake me up Judy Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 19 hours ago, Barlow said: Where else would you get three convicted arsonists in the same room together 'Anyone got a match' ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 Is that one of these 'scratch card' thingees Philip? How do you scraatch thems with yer phoone??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cueey Lewis And The News Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 On 11/19/2023 at 8:14 PM, John Wright said: Ive got a full collection of Hall Caine novels, picked up for £10 from Stella’s many years ago, but he’s like Trollope, Hardy, Galsworthy, etc, almost unreadable, very wordy, nothing happens for pages of densely written description. They’re great stories, but better suited to radio, tv, or film. I agree most of Caine’s books are absolutely terrible. It’s hard to work out how he actually got famous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shake me up Judy Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 26 minutes ago, Cueey Lewis And The News said: I agree most of Caine’s books are absolutely terrible. It’s hard to work out how he actually got famous. For a time he was the U.K.s best selling author. That's not necessarily a sign of quality though, as I'm sure we all know. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bees Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 12 hours ago, Shake me up Judy said: 'Anyone got a match' ? Careful with that kind of talk round here 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikimoto Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 The Narrator was appalling. Why go to all the effort of imbibing it with "local colour" then ruin it with that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 The only thing that I really know about Hall Caine is that he wrote 'The Manxman' oh, and he was a close friend of a suspect in the Jack the Ripper case! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 2 hours ago, Max Power said: The only thing that I really know about Hall Caine is that he wrote 'The Manxman' oh, and he was a close friend of a suspect in the Jack the Ripper case! To be fair, so many people have been named as a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders that it's probably mathematically impossible to have been alive in 1888 and not know at least one of them. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 7 hours ago, Max Power said: The only thing that I really know about Hall Caine is that he wrote 'The Manxman' oh, and he was a close friend of a suspect in the Jack the Ripper case! Sickert? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 41 minutes ago, quilp said: Sickert? I can't recall the name, it was an American chappie who came and went from London in time with the murders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augustus Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 On 11/19/2023 at 11:24 PM, Barlow said: Where else would you get three convicted arsonists in the same room together All very incestuous as these Manxy things are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Max Power said: I can't recall the name, it was an American chappie who came and went from London in time with the murders. Thomas Neill Cream, or is that another stab in the dark..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 9 minutes ago, quilp said: Thomas Neill Cream, or is that another stab in the dark..? I remembered, Francis Tumblety, here is a Wiki account which includes his dealings with Hall Caine... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Tumblety 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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