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This book is my first read of a Trollope novel, and it captured me on many different levels, which led to Trollope catapulting to the top of my Victorian author list.
Like Hardy, I see Trollope as a cool Victorian writer. Cool because he lets his woman kick ass, and he is not afraid to show the ugly underside of a Victorian culture that on the surface appears to be governed by propriety and the use of good manners. People are greedy in Trollope's world. They seek money, lots of money, without hav ...more
Like Hardy, I see Trollope as a cool Victorian writer. Cool because he lets his woman kick ass, and he is not afraid to show the ugly underside of a Victorian culture that on the surface appears to be governed by propriety and the use of good manners. People are greedy in Trollope's world. They seek money, lots of money, without hav ...more
This novel really did not really turn out as I had hoped at all. I have loved the other Trollope novels I have read, so I was hopefully that it would really affect me more.
Those who have read both this and Dickens' Little Dorrit will see the reason I might compare the two. I was even looking forward to some enjoyable comparison between those, and ultimately, I don't even have the interest to do that. At this point in my reading life -- and I will certainly read more Trollope to see -- I feel tha ...more
Those who have read both this and Dickens' Little Dorrit will see the reason I might compare the two. I was even looking forward to some enjoyable comparison between those, and ultimately, I don't even have the interest to do that. At this point in my reading life -- and I will certainly read more Trollope to see -- I feel tha ...more
I'm rounding this up to four stars; it was something of a letdown for a book considered Trollope's masterpiece. The best of it was the wealth of interesting, credible and realized characters; however, ideally the plots would have been better integrated (and where they were, it strained credulity -- the Mrs. Hurtle/Ruby Ruggles overlap, e.g.) and observations were frequently repeated and in almost identical language. There were also dead ends, as with the Father Barham storyline. The results of s
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I rarely give 5 stars to a book, but I have thoroughly enjoyed one, as much as War and Peace or Bleak House.
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