Barchester Towers is the second of the famous Barchester Chronicles. It is I think a favourite with many Trollope fans – as it reacquaints the reader with Mr Harding and his daughter Eleanor who we first met in The Warden, and proceeds to introduce a whole host of memorable characters. The first ...
There was a time when I devoured many, many Trollope novels, I loved them. The famous Barchester chronicles are maybe his best known, understandably so for they are brilliant. The Warden is the first of those chronicles, and a novel I had remembered well. I am pleased to say therefore I still lov...
The Bertrams is Anthony Trollope's sixth novel (of 47), and one of his better efforts. Although the book came in for criticism for all its travel scenes (it goes to the Middle East twice during the course of the action), it is an excellent character study of a man, George Bertram, who had reason ...
First of all, I will start by recommending this book. This is the 4th book in a series that I’ve enjoyed thoroughly thus far.The first three books are:* The Warden*Barchesters Towers* Doctor ThorneI think you could probably read the books out of order, I don’t know that I recommend it. Miss Dunst...
”There are a thousand little silly softnesses which are pretty and endearing between acknowledged lovers, with which no woman would like to dispense, to which even men who are in love submit sometimes with delight; but which in other circumstances would be vulgar,— and to the woman distasteful. ...
I started my odyssey through Anthony Trollope’s Palliser series of political novels in early 2011, beginning with Can You Forgive Her? I said at the outset of my review of this book that the year was to be my Trollope period, an author I had hitherto overlooked. Well, I only made it as far as P...
Ah, me. This is a most lovely series for lovers of English pastoral life and students of human nature. I'm almost done with "The Last Chronicle of Barset" (the sixth and final of the series), just haven't had time to put in a review of this one, the fifth, yet. This book was the first in the seri...
The Last Chronicle of Barset , last and longest of the Barsetshire Chronicles, is tied together by the central mystery of whether or not Josiah Crawley, curate of Hogglestock, stole a check. One way or another, all of the characters from previous novels become involved in the affair. It also pick...
Even though I knew what had happened between the end of the last Palliser novel and that start of this next – and final – novel in said series, and yet the opening sentence of ‘The Duke’s Children’ was heart-breaking.“No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old ...
This thing that he was about to do, or to attempt, – was it in itself a good thing, and would it be good for her whom he pretended to love? What would be her future if she consented now to go with him, and to divide herself from her husband? Of his own future he thought not at all. He had never d...
Letters from one young lady to another are doubtless written in this manner, and even with them it might sometimes be better if more patience had been taken; but with Mary’s first letter to her lover—her first love-letter, if love-letter it can be called—much more care was used. It was copied and...
Novels, Volumes I-VI, Complete /**/ CHAPTER X Violet Effingham It was now the middle of May, and a month had elapsed since the terrible difficulty about the Queen’s Government had been solved. A month had elapsed, and things had shaken themselves into their places with more of ease and app...
Her orders had been, that either she or Thomas should remain in the room the whole day, and those orders had been obeyed. Immediately after, breakfast, the baronet had inquired after his own servant. ‘His confounded nose must be right by this time, I suppose?’ ‘It was very bad, Sir Louis,’ said t...
The prophets of that time who prophesied the worst never foretold anything so black as this. On that Christmas day Major Anderson, who then held the command of the forts in Charleston harbour on the part of the United States Government, removed his men and stores from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter...
We may say, indeed, that perfect accuracy would be detrimental rather than otherwise, and would tend to disperse that feeling of mystery which is so gratifying. No suggestion had in truth been made to Lord George de Bruce Carru thers as to the searching of his lordship’s boxes and desks. That ver...