Re: Mystery reference in Machen
Posted by:
Platypus (IP Logged)
Date: 10 February, 2022 03:47PM
Seems like a tough nut to crack. What I gather from the text is that:
- The author is a man, who has written several other books in the same style.
- He is not Thackaray or George Eliot, nor (I suppose) Thomas Hardy.
- His work is a "book", presumably a novel, written before 1902.
- His style is extraordinary and difficult, so as to invite the thought that his language is foreign (though I suppose this is not really the case).
- It is about the flirtation of a insincere baroness with a very earnest German Socialist Jew, the latter who ends up getting shot in a duel.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 10 Feb 22 | 04:42PM by Platypus.