bookshelves: classic, published-1862, spring-2011, bucolic-or-pastoral, victorian, play-dramatisation Read from May 07 to 12, 2011 This was aired as three one-hour episodes and anyone who knows me knows I have little time for Trollope. However, I became immediately engaged with this one and fou...
A dense read at times but I loved all the different characters. Lizzie Eustace is one of the nastiest, most scheming "stab-you-in-the-back-while-wearing-a-smile" women I have read in years! I guessed the ending pretty early on but because the characters were so well written, it kept me reading. When...
A major change of scene for Trollope, and set in a (fairly recent) historical epoch - the French Revolution. The chapters on Robespierre in the late stages of the novel are very interesting in that they underscore Trollope's own insight (from his autobiography) that he has difficulty making characte...
As the title indicates, this is a bifurcated tale of two distantly related Irish families, the Kellys being merchant class and the O'Kellys minor Irish aristocrats. In each case there is a threatened love affair with an unattractive male antagonist. For Anty Lynch and Martin Kelly it is Anty's abusi...
When, realizing I had somehow missed Trollope entirely in the past, I downloaded his complete works, I must admit I wasn't expecting the first novel I read to be a rather grim fable about social troubles in Ireland. Subsequent perusal of the first few chapters of his autobiography give the reason: h...
Anthony Trollope's third installment in the Barchester Chronicles. A book of birth, wealth, titles, and class distinctions. Trollope skewers all three while making Dr. Thorne and his bastard strong willed niece Mary, and Mrs Dunstable, the only ones to see the absurdity of these Victorian British ...
Book Circle Reads 155Rating: 3.5* of five The Book Description: The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young Joh...
Is there a Victorian novelist who handles love triangles as well as Trollope, with the exception perhaps of Henry James? The Claverings is Trollope at his finest. With his usual skill, he presents us with characters who are all flawed and therefore human, led by greed, power, rank, status, and shee...
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