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First rate Trollope
There are some familiar Trollopean themes here: how headstrong newlyweds can turn minor spats into a serious rupture (He Knew He was Right, Kept in the Dark), how artful women can manipulate weak-willed men (The Claverlings, Mrs. Hurtle in The Way We Live Now). The central plot, summarized in the quesion that makes up the title, introduces us to one of Trollope's most lovable rascals, the Marquis of Brotherton, lovable because his rascality is so straightforward and lacking in guile. The other plot is about a sombre, priggish, not terrible bright Lord George who tries to dominate his flighty wife (Cf. Can You Forgive Her?), but she can easily run circles around him. What makes this top-notch Trollope is the wonderful gallery of fools, scoundrels and schemers -- and some people who manage to be all three. The wit andd satire is sustained throughout. Trollope hated all reformers and do-gooders, but he especially
disliked feminists. Here he has great fund at the expensive ofBaroness Banmann, Selina Protest and Antonia Q. Fleabody, who lecture at "The Rights of Women Institute, Established for the Relief of the Disabilities of Females", popularly known as "the disabilities".

An unwitting portrait of how screwed up Victorian England really was
This book is second-rate Trollope, but provides a first-rate look of what a Victorian mind is like -- from the inside.For in this book, Trollope seems to take for granted that primogeniture, female submission, and aristocracy are all good things, but Trollope is too good an author to permit his story to conform with his opinions:the aristocrats are largely fools; the eldest sons generally pale by comparison to their kid brothers; the women are almost all sharper than the men.Even so, the sense one gets reading this book is that Trollope approves of primogeniture, aristocracy, and the subjugation of women. It is almost as if Trollope has stretched outmoded Victorian morals as far as they can be stretched and it will take a pinprick to pop them altogether.

Not among my favorite Trollope novels
Trollope's best known novels are the Barchester series, which focuses on clerical life and church-related issues, and the Palliser series, which deals largely with politics. The lesser-known Trollope novels, however, include some of my personal favorites; they have little to do either with politicians or with the clergy, but are essentially comedies of manners.

In Trollope's Is He Popenjoy?, young Mary Lovelace is rich, pretty, innocent, and fond of having 'nonsense' spoken to her. Lord George Germain, younger brother to the Marquis of Brotherton, is exceedingly handsome, but also staid, stodgy, and short of money - and he has never spoken a word of nonsense in his life. His elder brother, who lives in Italy, is a bachelor; Lord George has therefore some expectations of eventually becoming the next Marquis. When he marries Miss Lovelace after a disappointment over another young lady - his cousin, Adelaide de Baron - the couple first live at Manor Cross with Lord George's widowed mother and his three spinster sisters. Lady Sarah, Lady Susannah, and Lady Amelia are virtuous women, but stodgy and severe like their brother, and not very congenial company for the young bride. Before approving the marriage, however, Mary's father, the Dean of Brotherton, stipulated that his daughter should have a house of her own in London and spend half of the year there.

In London, George is soon being pursued by his old flame Adelaide de Baron, now Mrs Houghton, while Mary starts a friendship with Adelaide's cousin, Captain de Baron - a young man adept at speaking the nonsense Mary so enjoys hearing. Captain de Baron understands the innocent nature of his intimacy with Mary ('more like that of children than grown people,' as he tells a mutual friend). Unfortunately, the friendship between Mary and the Captain is viewed as flirtation - or worse - not only by London society at large, but also by her own husband.

Meanwhile George's elder brother, the Marquis, has returned from Italy with an Italian wife, and a two-year-old heir of dubious legitimacy. The Marquis seems at pains to offend all his family and neighbors, and George is reluctantly drawn on by the Dean to launch a legal investigation into whether the Marquis's young son really has a right to be claimed as heir to the Brotherton title and property.

I generally enjoy Trollope, and I would have appreciated this novel much more if there had not been such a great many unpleasant characters in it - too many to make for very pleasant reading. Lord George's sisters are judgmental and officious, his mother tedious. Adelaide Houghton is a bit like Mansfield Park's Mary Crawford but without wit, charm, or redeeming qualities of any kind. As for the Marquis of Brotherton - just imagine the obnoxiousness of Northanger Abbey's John Thorpe multiplied tenfold. Worst of all, Lord George himself is quite unsympathetic; when reading the scenes in which he appeared, I could not help conjuring up a mental picture of the repellent Soames Forsyte from The Forsyte Saga.

Well, Yes, He Is Popenjoy, Sort Of...
Anthony Trollope's 47 novels contain many surprises, one of which is this delightful novel, which bears one of the most unlikely titles in all of literature. There is no better way to leave the megrims by the wayside than to immerse yourself into another time and place. Trollope was the Victorian story-teller par excellence.After having read a quarter of his vast output, I have yet to discover a clinker in the bunch.

A notorious curmudgeon, the Marquess of Brotherton has quitted England for the sunny shores of Italy. News filters back to his relatives that he has married an Italian and fathered a male heir, given the courtesy title of Lord Popenjoy. His mother and siblings are in a tizzy, as they are asked to quit the premises of the ancestral home to make way for a return of the prodigal head of the family with wife and heir.

It seems, however, that there is little news and much doubt about the legality of the Marquess's nuptuals; and therefore doubt as to whether his so-called son is actually the heir Popenjoy.

There is a delightful fox hunt (common to many of Trollope's novels), and a stormy marriage between the Marquess's young brother and a clergyman's daughter. She dares to dance the forbidden Kappa Kappa (the Lambada of its day) with a young wastrel, and raises the protective ire of every duenna within a hundred mile radius.

Look for some very amusing -- and controversial -- put-downs of the emerging feminist movement.

This is a good book to start reading Trollope. His two long series -- the Barsetshire and Palliser novels -- require a long commitment. Popenjoy is just right! ... Read more

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The Duke's Children is the final instalment of the political Palliser novels, ranked among Trollope's finest work. ... Read more

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The Golden Lion of Granpere
This little book (180pps) is certainly not Trollope's best. But even on this small stage we see displayed two of the author's favorite themes: the plight of women in a Victorian age who are treated like chattel and the conflict between inclination, on the one hand,and self-restraint and duty, on the other -- "aristocratic virtues" as de Tocqueville called them, and values we seem to have lost. We see Trollope's chauvanism at its worst, as the heroine must choose between the weak man her well-meaning uncle has selected for her and the "manly" man she prefers, the man who will be her lord and master and reduce her to the submissive position Trollope seems convinced women prefer.
But there is no one who saw more clearly, or felt more deeply, the agonies of a Victorian age (for all its faults) that was in its death throes, with capitalism and industrialism bearing down and the sense of somethingoutside the self, something to whom or to which we have a duty, weakening in the face of self-absorption. The book is worth reading, but not as a sample of Trollope at his best. For that I recommend The Warden or, perhaps, La Vendée. ... Read more

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After the death of his Irish wife, Phineas Finn returns to London and to the House of Commons. But though irresistibly drawn back, he never approaches politics with the zest of earlier days. Phineas survives an attempt on his life by the half-crazed and jealous Robert Kennedy, but his reputation is seriously damaged by the scandalous association with Lady Laura, Kennedy's wife. When he is put on trial for murder his disenchantment with his former life is so great that he never again enters the charmed inner circle of power. In some of his most powerful writing, Trollope charts Phineas's sad progress towards maturity and wisdom. Phineas Redux (1874) is the fourth of the six Palliser novels, published between 1864 and 1880. As a group they provide us with the most extensive and telling exposé of British life during the period of its greatest prestige. ... Read more

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Politics is always politics
I'm slowly rereading Trollope's political novels and just finished #4, Phineas Redux. In the first Phineas book the likeable (maybe one of Trollope's most likeable characters) Irishman wins a seat in Parliament and makes his way quickly into the homes and political circles of the Liberal Party. He falls in love--almost immediately--with Laura Standish who's the daughter of an Earl. She should have been male--she's that interested in politics and undertakes to make Phineas' career, but she marries an elderly rich man, Robert Kennedy (a calculated move because she didn't love him). Phineas is heart-broken but immediately finds another woman to love (who also marries someone else). He gets involved in a political issue, though, where he has to act on his conscience which means he has to leave the government and he can't afford to be only an MP (no salary). So he goes back to Ireland and marries his childhood sweetheart who rather quickly dies in childbirth.

Phineas Redux is about his second foray into politics. Likeable as ever, he still has limited means and, though, elected to Parliament, has to have a government post to make enough money to survive. But the gods are against him. Laura Kennedy has left her husband--who's tormenting her with his extreme religious practices--and he blames Phineas Finn whom Laura has discovered she really loves. Phineas is over that but kind and compassionate and mets her whenever she requests to give the support and advice of a friend. But the salacious press gets wind of the story when Robert Kennedy makes public his efforts to "get his wife back" and blames Phineas Finn for her leaving, implying an affair. Laura has to leave the country with her father to avoid the law compelling her to go back to her husband. Phineas, the good friend as ever, acts as go between and is attacked by friend and foe, even to the extent that the leaders of the Party avoid picking him for government office, to say nothing of nearly getting shot by Kennedy.

The political insights in this book, apart from the dated but lively prose, could be written by today's political pundits. It's both amusing and horrifying to realize that very little has changed.... Amusing too that Plantagenet Palliser (sort of the central character--well his wife is maybe more central) is angling all the time to convince Parliament to adopt a decimal currency--Trollope never knew it would ever be accomplished--in fact the first time I went to London I counted out 10 pennies for some tourist attraction that cost a shilling, but the ticket taker just glared at me and held out his hand until I sheepishly remembered there were 12 pennies in a shilling.....

Phineas quarrels with one of the party hacks who's most critical (on moral grounds) of his supposed affair with Lady Laura and the next thing we know Phineas is in Newgate accused of murder and in danger of being hung with only circumstantial evidence against him. (Very frustrating--one wants finger prints, blood types, DNA....) And I haven't even mentioned Madam Goesler (rich, dark-haired, young and somewhat mysterious Viennese widow) who's taken up by Glencora Palliser and becomes a fixture in Liberal political circles...who is Phineas' friend and had even proposed to him in the first book, though he'd refused, not wanting to be seen as a poor man angling for a rich wife.

Trollope's world is simple compared to ours but his analysis is far from simple. It's psychologically convincing. His political insights are perfect. And Phineas is a most delightful character.

FOR THIS BOOK, BONE UP ON YOUR TROLLOPE AND ENGLISH HISTORY
Trollope is my favorite writer. However, I was disappointed with this work. First, having a bad memory, I had forgotten much about Phineas and all the other characters from the previous works. I found it difficult from this standpoint, since I had forgotten so much of the background of all the characters.

Then, I found all the long, political scenes rather dull -- having no background in English politics and history. It became rather tedious whenever whole chapters were devoted to English politics and issues. So I skipped much of these scenes.

Nevertheless, despite these problems, I did finish the book. The relationship between Phineas and his women still held my attention.

And of course, Trollope, no matter what he writes of, seems always to make it interesting.

I would recommend tackling this work only if you have the background of his previous works clearly in mind.

The Best
So, do I mean the best Trollope or...simply the best novel ever written?Maybe both, although I know that eitheris a subjective, silly thing to say.So let me just state that "Phineas Redux" has given me more pleasure than most other books I've read, and I read a lot.Firstly, I'm a huge fan of Trollope's; I don't quite understand why the whole world doesn't consider him on par with Dickens and Austen.His plotting, his humor, his political, cultural and psychological insights, his way with the written word: they're all superb, as fine as anything you'll find in all of English literature.Secondly, I'm a huge murder mystery fan -- and lo and behold, a murder mystery makes up the second-half of "Phineas Redux."Add to this splendid mix the continued (mis)adventures of Lizzie Greystock (the vivacious, conniving heroine of "The Eustace Diamonds") and you have an entertaining and suspenseful read with very few equals.

Phineas again is a pleasure revisited.
I purchased the Palliser Series of books by Anthony Trollope -- Can You Forgive Her; Phineas Finn; The Eustace Diamonds; Phineas Redux; The Prime Minister; The Duke's Children.I have read the first four books in the series and will comment briefly on Phineas Redux, my favorite so far.

The reader who does not wish to read the books in order of composition would lose little by not having read Can You Forgive Her and The Eustace Diamonds.However, not to have read Phineas Finn would create some slight proplems because Finn's behavior in that first book is often mentioned in the second.Even so, it is possible to read Phineas Redux as a stand alone novel and derive much pleasure from the experience.

If we remove the boring Pariliamentary debates concerning the disestablishment of the Church of England, what remains is one of the most delightful of all English novels.Trollope is a great writer and he is at the top of his form in much of Phineas Redux.Particularly moving and convincing is the story of Lady Laura Kennedy, who loves Finn but is married to Robert Kennedy, a man she comes to hate and despise.She leaves Kennedy and takes up residence in Dresden to put herself out of the reach of her increasingly desperate and derranged husband.Finn once loved Lady Laura enough to have proposed to her, but she chose Kennedy and ended any chance she might have had to marry Finn.Even so, her love for Finn remains strong and true.In the end, he rejects her and marries Madame Max Goesler, whom Lady Laura hates with a passion.This is a sad and moving story; Trollope is at the hight of his powers in the telling of it.

The centerpiece of the novel is the trial of Finn for the murder of Mr. Bonteen, Finn's enemy.Trollope creates no mystery here.We know Finn is not guilty and we are given to believe that another enemy of Bonteen, the Reverend Mr. Emilius, is responsible.Bonteen's murder is a hanging offense.Finn is certain he will be hanged; his courage almost fails him; the trial comes close to breaking his proud and indomitable spirit.

Trollope must be considered one of the most entertaining of all English authors.Reading The Palliser novels and Phineas Redux in particular gives tremendous pleasure and satisfaction.The books are so well written that we feel we are a part of them.At the end of an evening's reading when we put down the book for the night, we can't stop thinking about the various characters and events.We start thinking about what we would say to Finn and friends if we were given the chance.This involvement with plot and characters keeps us coming back for more and Trollope has much more to give us.

The entire Palliser Series of novels has been turned into an excellent mini-series available on Amazon which I reviewed and, like the books, highly recommend.

Phineas Finn the intriguing Irish MP returns to London in a fine sequel to :Phineas Finn
As the novel Phineas Finn ends the Irish member leaves Parliament for marriage with a beautiful Irish lass. As Phineas Redux begins Mr.Finn is widowed and has returned to resume his career in the British Parliament.
This novel is one of Trollope's works in the Parliamentary series featuring such old favorites as Planty Pall and his wife the Duchess Glencora. Finn returns to find Laura Kennedy eager to win his favor after her mad husband Robert Kennedy casts her out of house and home. Kennedy is enflamed by jealousy of Finn (he courted her when she was Laura Standish). Along the way Kennedy attempts to murder Phineas. Phineas is himself tried for the murder of his politcal rival in the Liberal ranks the odious Mr. Bonteen who has been elevated to President of the Board of Trade.
We also meet the sexy, dark and beautiful continental belle Madame Max
who loves Finn helping him in his time of trouble with the law. She lives after almost 140 years in the vibrant pages she graces with her beauty, wit and tact.
The novel devotes several chapters to Trollope's love of fox hunting which to this reviewer is abhorrent as a blood sport. Some American readers will be confused, bored and bewildered by the machinations afoot in the House of Commons.
A good subplot concerns the triangle existing between Gerald Maule and
the farmer Spooner over the hand of Adelaide Palliser. Meanwhile, Gerald's wastrel father seeks the hand of Madame Max.
Trollope doesn't have the genius of Dickens; the intellect of Eliot or the imagination of the Brontes but he did produce good stories of realistc
characters. This novel is a good way to spend a few nights with a wonderful novelist of the Victorian age. ... Read more

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This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography. Author's biography and stories in the trial version.

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Many typos spoil this download
Trollope is wonderful but badly served in this download which is riddled with typographical errors.Samuel Heins

If you like Trollope...
you will LOVE this download. I think it's the first time I've been able to read Trollope in a nice clear typeface and not that nasty Victorian style.

Trollope develops his characters over long and multiple books. If you like reading one book, you will continue reading, and find you favorite characters doing bit parts in other books. This makes Victorian England seem real, like ... of course all these people know each other. He's a great writer and always has happy endings.

The download is good. You can link to any book from the index. There are maybe two typos per page. Nothing too bad. The biggest problem I had was that the download has 305,978 locations!! And there was no way to know where you were in any particular book. My solution was to go to the next book and bookmark the first page, which gave me a dot on the bottom line to judge how far I had to read. Also It would have been nice to be able to skip chapters easily. (I don't care at all about electoral politics in Victorian England and always skip those chapter)As it was I paged through. not a big deal

Brilliant
Works of Anthony Trollope (50+ works). Includes The Way We Live Now, Barchester Towers, The Warden, The Small House at Allington, Palliser Novels, Chronicles ... MORE. Published by MobileReference (mobi).

Anthony Trollope is a master of developing memorable characters. Each character has one or more particular faults, and we, as the readers, quickly realize that no one is perfect. Even the sympathetic characters are prejudiced at times. This, I believe, is a marked contrast to Dickensian personnages who much of the time are almost too angelic or cruel to be believable. Trollope give us a lesson in true human nature, one that will be very hard for me to forget.

Trollope creates fantastic characters.
Works of Anthony Trollope (50+ works). Includes The Way We Live Now, Barchester Towers, The Warden, The Small House at Allington, Palliser Novels, Chronicles ... MORE. Published by MobileReference (mobi).

One should be cautious with regard to the consumption of Trollopian tales; they are addictive. Read one and you will go back for another. ... Read more

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Much against his will, the Duke of Omnium consents to lead a coalition government. The Duchess quickly becomes a social figure of great power striving to consolidate his support. Together they make their way to the centre of society and, like Phineas Finn before them, they find it hollow. The novel is haunted by the mysterious Ferdinand Lopez whose pernicious influence the Duke and Duchess cannot escape. Though their relationship is far from perfect, their love for one another is as convincingly and movingly portrayed as any in English fiction. The Prime Minister (1876), described by Tolstoy as a 'beautiful book', is the fifth of the six Palliser novels (1864-80). Together they provide an exceptionally rich and telling exposé of the British way of life during the period of its greatest prestige. ... Read more

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The Cad versus the Gentleman: The Cad Wins
This is one novel I know I will have the pleasure of never reading again!

I could say nice things about how Trollope created an intriguing character of Ferdinand Lopez, and how he made Lady Glencora, the wife of the Prime Minister, really lovable despite her vulgarities.But to have made Plantagenet Palliser, the main title hero of this very long novel, that little p-whipped introvert, was a very odd choice and very punishing on the reader who remained bored most of the time reading about his political skirmishes in Parlament which were as tiny in importance as the man himself who lasts only three years as a Prime Minister -- although his skirmishes with Lady Glencora were far more diverting because we see the male supremacist being threatened by a female dominatrix. That the reader finds Everett Wharton, the faineant wastrel of a gentleman's son, eventually becoming a married man and baron was a bit of a fairy tale stretch, andwatching poor Arthur Fletcher, the most fetching and capitvating gentleman in this novel, have to wait and wait and wait before his fairy tale romance with Emily Wharton has even the slightest chance of coming true -- when the reader really wants the "fairy tale ending" to come true for him -- was unintentionally or indirectly cruel.

The moral of the tale seems to be that when a cad is up against a gentleman, the gentleman always loses, in one degree or another.Emily's father certainly lost a whole lot of money and a lot of his happiness because of Lopez; Emily goes south emotionally after marrying him; Sexty Parker and Mrs. Parker suffer tremendously as a result of being business partners with Lopez; and even the Lady Glencora and the Prime Minister lost some of their reputation and shine in the Queen's government as a result of their acquaintance with the infamous Lopez.And the best gentleman of all, the most virtuous and the most appealing character, Arthur Fletcher, after working tirelessly and nearly unrequitedly, gets his woman in the end but, for thereader, the thrill is gone by the time Emily is ready and she only accepts him out of a sense of duty because that's all anybody around her has got left to say to her in order to motivate her to marry the sweet guy!She has turned into a black wet blanket because of Lopez and her grief over him.

I was looking through Victoria Glendenning's bio of Anthony Trollope before writing this review and she wrote that Anthony Trollope had a weight problem and went on a famous diet of the time and wrote stuff praising this new diet -- and then he went off the diet and gained all his weight back! This novel is full of fat and could have been put on a diet as well.I think the main character really didn't have the necessary qualities to be a protagonist of this novel so Trollope padded it a good deal to make it "fuller" somehow.

Anthony Trollope does a good job of depicting Ferdinand Lopez, the interloper, as the psychopath that he is.This is the first Victorian psychopath I've encountered in Victorian literature that wasn't a murderer and the novel is very interesting because of the accuracy of Trollope's depiction of him, but after this treat, there is very little nutrition left - emotionally or morally, so to speak.There was a certain pointlessness about the whole -- especially because the cad Lopez leaves everyone else a little poorer, a little more diminished, a little more unhappy than before he entered the novel.Does it really pay to be an "inwardly superior human being?"This novel says the answer is no.

Superb social comedy
The Prime Minister contains two interlacing stories: the career of Plantagenet Palliser, the hero in the series of which this novel is the crowning part, and the tribulations of the London heiress Emily Wharton in love and marriage. I thought the insider's view of parliamentary and cabinet politics would be the novel's attraction. Actually the struggles of Emily Wharton, who has made a love match to a dangerous adventurer, turned out to be more exciting. Trollope was a master storyteller, and that tale is full of interesting surprises as well as sharp, entertaining dialogue. The political story tends to form a lighter backdrop to it.

The Prime Minister is indeed half social comedy and half psychological. It is a cross, perhaps, between Evelyn Waugh and George Eliot. It tends, besides, to be interested in the emotional side of politics and in the effect of social mores on private life, not the other way around. It is also prejudiced (the villain is a swarthy Latin, and he is an arch-villain), though somehow that doesn't shock too much (so am I: a swarthy Latin, I mean, not an arch-villain). But most importantly, it is a compelling read.

Two more points. First, it is not necessary to have read the previous Palliser novels to enjoy this one. Second, in spite of its length, it is quickly read, even if the last hundred pages are superfluous (the work was serialised and expected to reach a certain length). ... Read more

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Ayala and her sister Lucy are penniless orphans whose relations seem to know what is best for them. Ayala is taken by the family of their uncle, but riches can't tempt her and Lucy moves to an unfashionable part of London, where she tries to accept a world of genteel poverty. ... Read more

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Ayala's Angel
I love Anthony Trollope's stories. When I ordered Ayala's Angel I thought I was buying the standard size paperback. This edition is larger (7x9") which is less practical to carry around and the printing is of poor quality, smudged and sometimes hard to read. I'm going to stay away from this type of paperback. But the story itself is a great portrait of an idealist, a dreamer in situations unlike any one could find oneself at present. But then, Trollope is a wonderful escape into a world of romance, harsh reality and limited possibilities for women. And you can't beat the good ending.

Light Trollope
Ayala's Angel is much lighter and more lyric thanmany of Trollope's novels.Ayala is a dreamer, and Trollope wants us to respect her for that.The pace and the humor are typical Trollope.Ienjoyed it very much, though it's hardly his most profound commentary. ... Read more

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In A-to-Z dictionary format, one of the most complete guides to Anthony Trollope's works ever published describes all of the 19-century English writer's 47 novels, his short stories, travel books, and other works, including his famous AUTOBIOGRAPHY. The book examines the background, plot, characters, and tone of his works, and explains historical context and how Trollope dealt with such topics as religion, politics, and marriage. ... Read more

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The Barsetshire Novel series includes: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Dr. Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, and The Last Chronicle of Barset. This file has an active (hyperlinked) table of contents.Click on a book title and go to the beginning of that book.Push Back to return to the Table of Contents. According to Wikipedia: "Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day." (improved 2/26/2009) ... Read more

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Gentle and Funny
One of the public domain authors I had never read but seemed worth exploring once Kindle versions became almost free was Anthony Trollope. I knew Trollope was a contemporary of Dickens who was reputed to have written an awful lot of good novels but no great ones. When I considered reading him, however, I only saw the large number of novels and my limited time. Poking around the internet, the consensus seemed to be that if you were only going to read a little Trollope, then the Barsetshire series was the way to go. The series can be purchased for next to nothing on the Kindle so I did it.

To date I have read the first two books in the series: The Warden, and Barchester Towers. These books take place in the fictional English community of Barsetshire. The first two describe families who survive by holding positions in the church--the Church of England.

I know very little about the Church of England, nineteenth century ecclesiastical politics, or English politics in general. Before reading Trollope you would have been hard pressed to convince me that I could delight in a series of novels about people vying for some position I've never heard of in the Church of England.And yet, I have enjoyed the first two immensely.

Trollope is a gentle writer with a keen eye for nuances of social life. He is a humorist. Sometimes the humor is of the laugh-out-loud kind, but more often it is the chuckle-of-recognition kind that comes having human folly described so clearly and accurately that the observation is as true in our twentieth century technological world as it was in the church politics of the nineteenth century.

Dickens wrote at the extremes. His good characters are oh-so-good and his bad ones exquisitely evil. Trollope is not like that. He seems to wish all his characters well, and when one of them acts in ways that are less than admirable, he is likely to stop the story and explain to the reader that in other situations the character is a find and ethical person.

Trollope's stories intentionally eschew suspense. When a young widow in Barchester Towers is being pursued by two neer-do-well suitors, Trollope stops the narration to assure the reader that our young heroine will succumb to neither of these unsuitable suitors. He tells us this out of concern, intending to spare we readers any undue worry about her eventual fate.In an odd way, he is as kind to his readers as he is to his characters.

The people of Barsetshire go about their business trying to improve their lives though a better paying position in the church or a better marriage, and the reader is allowed to watch. Reading the novels feels mildly voyeuristic, as if I am looking in at regular people: vain, selfish, honorable, afraid and ultimately human.

I am happy reading Trollop. He reminds me that the more things change the more they remain the same. We are all human, trying to to the best we can.

Review of Kindle Edition:Edition has problems, but story wonderful
At the time of this writing, I would advise caution when buying this for your Kindle because the dictionary "look up"function was not working. I reported it, so I would suggest downloading a sample first to see if they have solved the problem.[Just received a response from Amazon on this problem, to wit:"After researching this issue we have located the problem and discovered it is related to the way in which the owner of this content made it available to the Kindle store. Because of the circumstances it may take some time to resolve this issue." 3/2/09]Also, the editors didn't indent the paragraphs, so there are two returns after each paragraph.That's a lot of white space and a lot of page turning.There are also quite a few typos, especially in the final books.I enjoyed the books in spite of these challenges--quite a tribute to Trollope.

These are six novels that all take place in or near the fictional Barsetshire around 1860. Trollope, a contemporary of Dickens, regals you with the stories of this beloved shire and the people who lived there. Each book focuses on a different set of characters, but the characters you have met in previous books make appearances, too, so that by the end of the last novel you feel you know each one of them and have spent several years with them.
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Lady Glencora's Creator
Unfairly the author was deemed a disgrace during his school days and he burns with indignation over his treatment fifty years later.At twelve he went from Harrow to Winchester.His father had taken two farms, had no capital, and had given up his career as a lawyer.After Winchester Trollope returned to Harrow.

When his mother wrote a book about her stay in the United States, it was a success.The family's pecuniary circumstances improved, but the boy remained friendless.DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS was the first of Mrs. Trollope's travel books.In her case politics was an affair of the heart.

At Orley Farm the mother surrounded the family with moderate comforts.After two years the family decamped to Belgium to avoid creditors.Mrs. Trollope wrote novels while a son and her husband were dying of consumption.The author then hurried to London to assume a job at the Post Office.After the father's death, Mrs. Trollope moved back to England.The author's father had had a life of misery through no fault of his own, suffering a blighted ambition.

Seven years later Anthony went to Ireland to work as a surveyor clerk for the Post Office.He met his wife there and married in 1844.In 1845 his first novel was finished.Two Irish novels and an historical novel were failures.He surveyed postal facilities in England and conceived of THE WARDEN story at Salisbury.It was begun in 1852.When it was published in 1855 there were notices of it in the press.It was not as great a failure as the others.He wrote BARCHESTER TOWERS in railway coaches as he traveled in them on Post Office business.The author's brother supplied the plot for DR. THORNE.

To pursue his other career Trollope allotted himself so many pages a week.(This bit in the autobiography is famous.)He finished DR. THORNE on one day and started THE BERTRAMS the next.Trollope went to Egypt, to Scotland, to the West Indies for the Post Office.He created FRAMLEY PARSONAGE for CORNHILL MAGAZINE.John Everett Millais illustrated FRAMLEY PARSONAGE, THE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON, PHINEAS FINN, and RACHEL RAY.

Anthony Trollope settled at Waltham Cross and in 1866 became a member of the Garrick Club and subsequently a number of other clubs.His comments on other novelists of the 19th century are interesting.He claims authors and critics should not be in the same company.In 1867 THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET was brought out in monthly installments.That same year Trollope resigned from the Post Office.Evidently Anthony Trollope inherited his mother's stamina. ... Read more

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The author of forty-seven novels, plus travel books, biographies, essays, and critical works, Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was the most prolific of the great Victorian writers. Now The Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope brings together thirty-six leading scholars who provide an accessible, authoritative, and wide-ranging reference work on this important literary figure.

Here, in more than 500 A-Z entries, readers will find a wealth of information on Trollope's life, his works, and the historical and social context in which he lived. Trollope's writing career spanned almost half a century and his circle of friends reads like a who's who of Victorian England--and it's all captured here. The contributors offer illuminating essays on Trollope's major works--including the famed Barsetshire Novels and Paliser Novels--as well as on the many lesser known but no less accomplished books. The volume also examines Trollope's personal life, offering fresh information on such well documented aspects as his work at the Post Office and his famous circle of friends. Moreover,the contributors provide the most recent findings on aspects of Trollope's career only recently addressed by scholars: his work as a biographer and journalist, the importance of his extensive travels abroad, and the astonishing reappraisal of his work over the last few decades. And the Companionincludes a chronology of Trollope's life, a family tree, maps, a thematic overview, and an extensive bibliography.

Packed with information based on the most current research, this attractively illustrated volume provides an unparalleled guide to one of the great nineteenth-century writers. It belongs on the shelf of everyone who loves English literature. ... Read more

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An Indispensable Guide for the Trollope Addict
In his long writing career, Anthony Trollope wrote 47 novels, dozens of short stories, plus assorted nonfiction such as the journal of a voyage to Iceland and a book about the Spanish Main. If you like his work as much as I do, you need a vade mecum, or companion, to help remind you which character belongs to which book, with assorted explanations of the major themes and background in the Victorian era in which Trollope is so firmly situated.

R. C. Terry's encyclopedic reference is both well-informed and well-written, and certainly comprehensive. Its only competition is Richard Mullen's PENGUIN COMPANION TO TROLLOPE, which is not quite so useful. Terry's book has over 500 entries, including several aids to navigating its 600 pages. The entry for Griselda, Marchioness of Hartletop, for example, identifies the 8 Trollope novels in which she appears, at times as an important character. There is no equivalent entry in the Mullen book.

Like Balzac, Proust, and Faulkner, Trollope has characters that frequently span two or more novels. This is especially true in the two big "sextets," the Barchester and Palliser novels, though not limited to them.

Anthony Trollope's novels have been a source of great joy to me over the years. There are few reading experiences comparable to the frisson I get when opening a new Trollope novel for the first time. I would not be surprised that that thrill will recur when I start re-reading them, as I hope to do some day.

An Essential Guide to An Essential Author
This guide, at once learned and down to earth, provides a detailed look at one of the greatest writers of the 19th century, Anthony Trollope.Always a popular favorite, and only now being accorded the academic and critical attention he so richly deserves, this guide takes a reader through his many novels, travel pieces, criticism, translation and biography. Trollope was an indefatigable observer of middle- and upper-middle-class life at the height of the British Empire, during the mid-19th century. His unusually acute psychological observations -- still telling today -- and his keen eye and ear for social nuance and political intrigue are unparalleled in literature (George Eliot, a close friend, said she couldn't have embarked on "Middlemarch" without the groundwork Trollope laid in his Barsetshire novels). This volume includes thoughtful essays on all of the novels, with tidbits on critical reception at the time of their publication. It also describes aspects of Trollope's art -- his prose style, his sense of characterization, his plotting, his humor, his moral depth and his literary antecedents. For someone new to the author, it is a welcome introduction to his work; for those already in thrall to this supreme novelist's skill, it is an invaluable resource, a reminder of the breadth of Trollope's talent. It's a volume to be dipped into or savored at length. Filled with intelligence, insight and wit, this literary companion belongs on the shelf of any thoughtful reader's library.

An Essential Guide to An Essential Author
This guide, at once learned and down to earth, provides a detailed look at one of the greatest writers of the 19th century, Anthony Trollope.Always a popular favorite, and only now being accorded the academic and critical attention he so richly deserves, this guide takes a reader through his many novels, travel pieces, criticism, translation and biography. Trollope was an indefatigable observer of middle- and upper-middle-class life at the height of the British Empire, during the mid-19th century. His unusually acute psychological observations -- still telling today -- and his keen eye and ear for social nuance and political intrigue are unparalleled in literature (George Eliot, a close friend, said she couldn't have embarked on "Middlemarch" without the groundwork Trollope laid in his Barsetshire novels). This volume includes thoughtful essays on all of the novels, with tidbits on critical reception at the time of their publication. It also describes aspects of Trollope's art -- his prose style, his sense of characterization, his plotting, his humor, his moral depth and his literary antecedents. For someone new to the author, it is a welcome introduction to his work; for those already in thrall to this supreme novelist's skill, it is an invaluable resource, a reminder of the breadth of Trollope's talent. It's a volume to be dipped into or savored at length. Filled with intelligence, insight and wit, this literary companion belongs on the shelf of any thoughtful reader's library. ... Read more

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