The book is brimming with side-stories, none of them especially fascinating and some of them totally critical. Close to the end was a very romanticized record of a lady with an illegitimate child submitting suicide by suffocating. How the waters affectionately grasped her and gave her peace. That is what's the issue with this book. Exceedingly entertaining episodes intermixed with purple exposition, a travelog of some of England's most exhausting towns, and whatever struck the creator as(I need to say fascinating, yet I don't trust it truly) something that would fill in the account and be'instructive'. A decent manager could slice this to a truly brilliant amusing book just around a third-long. For this situation the abbreviated variant would be one serious parcel superior to the first and I would have given it more than 3-stars.