I think its alright for its time period. I find most books from that particular era to be terrible, because its not so foreign that it gets "translated" to modern English. So it ends up in this verbose nonsense that undermines the actual content. Jules Verne is the worst in this regard.

Like, if you strip the story down to its actual content, then its a great story of a man playing God and his creation being lost without purpose while slowing becoming mad by it. But that's surrounded by literary diarrhea.