Babel, or The Necessity of Violence

I want to start the year generous and gave it a five. It is a very ambitious book that captures the Victorian era as it was - the Best and the Worst of Times. I appreciated much about the book - the historical aspects, the dialogs on translation (my long distant past at University), the celebration of etymology, the Oxford setting (lived there fortwo years), The story read easily and narrative worked. My only downsides was a proper epilogue to understand the consequences of the final act.