I read the Barchester Chronicles for the first time when I was about 12, and for some reason I just kept ploughing through, at the same time enjoying yet finding it difficult to process. I've since read the first two books a couple times each, and each time I read them again I enjoy them a little mo...
'Framley Parsonage' is not the continuation of the story of 'Doctor Thorne' the way that 'Barchester Towers' was of 'The Warden', but they have a good deal in common more than characters and setting.Mark Robarts is a clergyman, not yet thirty, who has benefited from the patronage of his friend's mot...
In many respects the last novel of Anthony Trollope's "Palliser" series is about new beginnings -- particularly the beginning of adulthood and the changes that brings about. This is especially difficult for Plantagenet Palliser, the eponymous Duke of Omnium, who must serve as sole parent for his thr...
Dr. Thorne is a distant cousin to the Thornes of Ullathorne, minor characters in 'Barchester Towers', who moved to Greshamsbury years before after his bristling pride and steadfast devotion to his dissipated, and now dead, brother burned all of his bridges in Barchester proper. He has a small practi...
As amusing as it was to read, 'The Warden' was a straight-faced prelude to this extravagant romp through the parlors of the Anglican gentry. One should read the two together as the question of Hiram's Hospital and the wardenship are prime concerns in the greater game being played for control of the ...
It's true that 'Barchester Towers' may be the more comic and the more popular, (even the Modern Library gives it preferment) but a great deal of its enjoyment lies in the set-up provided by 'The Warden'.These two novels are inseparable and Mr. Hardings' first troubles add so few pages to the bulk of...
Lily meets a young man from London. They fall in love quickly and become engaged. But Lily's young man, Crosbie, soon begins to have doubts. The doubts are created by the awareness that Lily's uncle does not intend to give any money to her when she marries. This means that Crosbie will have difficul...
I've been at this one for a month and only gotten 225 pages into it, out of 712. Enough. There are too many books in the world for this. This isn't a horrendous book, but I see little to explain why it's survived from the mid-19th century. The characters are not particularly engaging, nor the pros...
What kept me apart from Mr. Trollope for so long? I've had the Modern Library combined edition of Barchester Towers and The Warden for ages, and after beginning it, and falling in love, found a complete set of the 'Barchester Chronicles' bound in red leather at the local antique store. The universe ...
Grande classico che descrive la (buona) società inglese del periodo post-napoleonico in modo molto ironico e pungente.Tratta temi di fatto molto attuali, i vari personaggi che si incontrano nel romanzo appaiono importanti per il loro prestigio sociale e le loro rendite e viene costantemente evidenzi...
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