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Aug 26, 2016jensenmk rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I think I started this twice before but never finished it. This time I made it to the end. It's one of the few books my rather unliterary father seemed to have been impressed with in his youth. Highly melodramatic: the good are very good, the bad are very bad. Some stock characters grow tiresome. The work had a considerable vogue during the heyday of romanticism, then migrated to the category of children's literature. Highly politically incorrect with overt anti-Semitism, but this is undercut by Rebecca's stealing the show.