A BBC version. I couldn’t get far with the novel so here was my chance to get the general idea.
The characterization of Esther Summerson, the heroine, seemed to me as impossible as it had been in the book, although my good friend, more knowledgeable than I, is of the pro-Esther party. But for me, who is there to love, and to carry me through the melodrama (and I don’t mean melodrama in the descriptive, non-judgmental, neutral sense). Probably it’s a matter of my limitations. T.S. Eliot and many others have thought it a great work. This video version seems a reasonable adaptation.
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