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Product Description
"The Penguin Trollope" array contains all of Trollope's novels and collected brief stories, as good as his "Autobiography". This novel blends realism with torment in maturation a bizarre box of a purported forgery of a addendum to Sir Joseph Mason's will.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7895393 in Books
- Published on: 1985-11
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 838 pages
Editorial Reviews
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'Brilliantly choreographed authorised thriller'.- Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday, 1.8.99
About a Author
English writer, famous for his dual epic array of chronological novels, a Barchester array and a Palliser series. Trollope was prepared during Harrow and Winchester though was incompetent to finish his preparation due to his father's indebtedness. He worked in a postal services and trafficked expansively as a postal surveyor. After his retirement he helped determined St. Paul's Magazine, continued to transport and wrote some 60 books. Other afterwards a Barchester and a Palliser series, he wrote The Way We Live Now (1875), The West Indies and a Spanish Main (1859), North America (1862), Australia and New Zealand (1873), and South Africa (1878). Trollope's journal was published posthumously in 1883.
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35 of 35 people found a following hearing helpful.
Trollope during his best!
By Leonard L. Wilson
Orley Farm is Trollope during his best (as good as a Barsetshire series), that means some of a best characterizations in a English language. Trollope's people are real; a beleaguered Lady Mason, charged with forging a will; a aged partner Sir Peregrine Orme; Madeleine Stavely, deeply though many in love; a shallow, variable Sophia Furnival and others are 3-dimensional total that live and breathe. His joke of a supposed "justice" complement is a best kind of satire: he only describes a justice record as they unequivocally are. The outcome is as present as today's newspaper. It is no consternation that Trollope's reconstruction in recognition is stability to grow.
19 of 19 people found a following hearing helpful.
An elegant, pointed undermining of a authorised system.
By A Customer
Orley Farm is Trollope during his many profound, and his many entertaining. It is formidable to discern what is best in this novel: a subtle, satirical hearing of how authorised systems can't be just and, some-more fundamentally, how humankind looks after a possess regardless of right and wrong; or a episodic tour with some of Trollope's many noted (and always 3 dimensional) characters - a 'wrong' though totally empathic Lady Mason, a fiercely fair Sir Peregrine Orme, a male immature Peregrine Orme and, many memorably, a peaceful impressed though staunchly constant Mrs Orme - undergoing a pangs of Trollope's play amidst ancient piles, undulating hedgerows and sequestered English fields.
18 of 19 people found a following hearing helpful.
Deja Vu All Over Again
By A Customer
Orley is simply timeless. Just as in a Palliser series, a characters are a people all around you, in a office, in a news, and on a tube. Trollope's ability to know a pointed differences that figure a mind of group and women is simply uncanny. If we are a law seeker, this is a book for you. Anyone with bearing to a authorised complement with a basement in a English common law will know a keen research it is subjected to in Orley Farm. The eminence between immorality deeds and a mostly sensitive humans that are their authors is one that complicated American enlightenment mostly forgets to make. Orley Farm is here to remind us. As a trusts and estates lawyer, we can not trust that we used for fifteen years before someone told me about this gem.
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