Some classics were written with a "per word" payment scheme to the author. That created bad writing in awkward places. The Swiss family Robinson is an example

Some classics were written with a "per word" payment scheme to the author. That created bad writing in awkward places. The Swiss family Robinson is an example of this. Times of interesting adventure and then long passages about poetry analysis. Ironically, reading it feels like you are reading the works of an author with a low attention span. There's a reason so many of the classics have abridged versions.