May Books 12) Rookwood, by William Harrison Ainsworth

[nwhyte]

This sprawling, verbose epic was written, according to the author, in 24 hours - NaNoWriMo-ers, eath your hearts out. It is a tale of family secrets, skullduggery and revenge, with added Dick Turpin, and the highlight is Turpin's epic ride from London to York near the end of the book, which is told rather well even though it barely fits with the

Comments

Via http://onelook.com

[dsgood]

Quick definitions (lutulent)

# (a.) Muddy; turbid; thick.

(This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)

There are 12 other dictionaries which onelook.com gives as having that word.

You mean you don't remember it from Ulysses?

[raycun]

For who is there who anything of some significance has apprehended but is conscious that that exterior splendour may be the surface of a downwardtending lutulent reality

(okay, okay, I looked it up too)

[chickenfeet2003]

"lutulent" would describe the Toronto Don pretty well.

[unwholesome_fen]

I read Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho" some time ago - it's worth reading if only because it pretty much established the norms of the gothic genre. It is rather long though.