Rich, dense, and very good. The problem I ran into with this is the archaic morality, the way women are irredeemably ruined at the hands of cads and bounders. Aside from that, I enjoyed this long and excellent book. The cast of characters is multitudinous and well-differentiated, the plotting is delightful, and the turns of phrase memorable. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."