“If there is a Pride and Prejudice of kitschy bad fiction, Amanda McKittrick Ros’s 1897 masterpiece of overwriting” — Irene Iddesleigh — “is it. The book’s legion of avowed ‘admirers’ includes Mark Twain, the Bloomsbury Group, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis. At parties, ardent devotees have been known to compete in seeing how long they can read aloud from its pages without laughing. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature aptly sums up Ros’s work as ‘uniquely dreadful.'”