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Kept : a Victorian mystery

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  • "A talented and versatile writer, author of The Comedy Man (2001) and a biography of George Orwell (2003), Taylor presents a literary Victorian mystery that combines a Dickensian cast of characters with the dark foreboding of Poe. In a story ostensibly about a madwoman whose husband, Henry Ireland, dies in questionable circumstances, finding the killer is ancillary to a journey into the human psyche. Mr. Dixey, a naturalist whose country manse contains rare specimens of stuffed and live wildlife, also houses Henry's distraught widow: her precarious sanity is secure in protective isolation. Dixey's shady proclivities lead him to a con man whose opportunism makes financial captives of people of all classes. The novel's deliciously drawn-out pacing mirrors Victorian literature, as does the wonderfully descriptive language ("skeins of birds," "mournful in the gloaming") and sophisticated vocabulary ("encomia pronounced over his catafalque"). A refreshing lack of unbelievable coincidences reflects a more modern style: each person's story realistically demonstrates the author's conclusions about the things we collect and the people we cannot. Book groups will enjoy this one."
  • "De verdachte dood van een landeigenaar in 1863 in Suffolk lijkt verband te houden met de moord op een natuurvorser in 1866 in Norfolk."

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Kept : a Victorian mystery"
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  • "Kept : a novel"@en
  • "Kept a novel"@en
  • "Kept a novel"

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