I doubt Varney the Vampyre has much romance in it. It's a Victorian penny dreadful. It was in the school library when I was a boy, which led to a bit of teasing as my surname is Varney. The original edition had 220 chapters.
I doubt Varney the Vampyre has much romance in it. It's a Victorian penny dreadful. It was in the school library when I was a boy, which led to a bit of teasing as my surname is Varney. The original edition had 220 chapters.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
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