Armadale by Wilkie Collins

I have liked Armadale (1866) very much ever since I first read it a few years ago. It's an amazing sensation novel, with a complicated and exciting plot and a fascinating villain, and also it contains one of the cutest slash pairings in nineteenth-century literature. Recently I was encouraged to re-read it, and this has been an excellent decision.

( Speed, bonny boat, like a bird on the wing... )

ETA: I post about this book on Dreamwidth, and the very next day chiropteracupola has started reading it and drawn fanart! I am delighted—look at them all cute there :D