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This was much better than I expected, having left it to one of the last group of Trollope's novels I have not read. Two things are missing from this that I have come to expect in his better novels: a fox-hunting scene and multiple plot lines. Nope, no one goes hunting (although there is a short reference as to whether it is fair when the fox gets back to his covert) and there is but one plot.
John Caldigate misspent his youth during his college years and redeemed his inheritance to go to Australi ...more
John Caldigate misspent his youth during his college years and redeemed his inheritance to go to Australi ...more
After reading all of the Palliser and Barchester books, I felt a little lost among the many other stand-alone books by Anthony Trollope that I have yet to read. There was more than one book that I put up and picked down, but when I picked up John Caldigate and started to read I realised that I had found the right book. There was exactly the right balance of things that I know that Trollope does well and things that I hadn’t encountered in his books before.
John Caldigate was the only son of a wid ...more
John Caldigate was the only son of a wid ...more
Taking a break from other Trollope novels in series, but perhaps I'm reading too much Trollope lately. This one has not yet engaged me. The 'hero' is a bit of a cad, but very human and we forgive him. Listening to it via Librivox, excellent reader- Martin Evers, I think.
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Mar 18, 2015
Cindy
marked it as to-read
