Orley Farm
This story deals with the imperfect workings of the legal system in the trial and acquittal of Lady Mason. Trollope wrote in his Autobiography that his friends considered this "the best I have written".About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest...
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This story deals with the imperfect workings of the legal system in the trial and acquittal of Lady Mason. Trollope wrote in his Autobiography that his friends considered this "the best I have written".About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780199537723 (0199537720)
Publish date: August 31st 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 864
Edition language: English
The first Trollope novel I've read, this book kept making me think back to Dickens' Bleak House, which I read at the end of last year. Both deal with a major legal case, though each very different in nature.It may not be a fair comparison, but I definitely preferred Bleak House, for the style and o...
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...
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 found I cared for the characters. Solid.
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