He Knew He Was Right (Penguin Classics)
 The beauties of conventional decency, and what lurks beneath: Trollope is the ideal Victorian, celebrating the conventional, but with a thoroughly worldly appreciation of the darker side of human psychology that's best kept bottled up. In this novel, he [... more]
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Dr. Wortle's School (Penguin Classics)
A Trollope Treat: Dr. Wortle's School is basically the story of two couples in love and how their affections disrupt the tranquil setting of the school. The main plot revolves around Dr. Wortle's "usher" or school assistant, Mr. Peacocke and [... more]
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Framley Parsonage (Penguin English Library)
Framley Parsonage is a delightful novel in the immortal Barsetshire Series by Victorian author Anthony Trollope: Framley Parsonage is the fourth in Trollope's Barsetshire novels. Trollope (1815-1882) wrote the novel as a serial in the influential [... more]
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The Duke's Children (Penguin Classics)
A 200-page idea in 600-plus pages: The Trollope lover will not think of missing this, the culmination of the Palliser novels, but will love Trollope a little less after reading it. It is all the things detractors of his work complain of -- plotless, [... more]
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The Prime Minister (Penguin Classics)
Not for the uninitated: A reader of the Palliser novels will find THE PRIME MINISTER supremely satisfying, a splendid reward for the intermittent longueurs and annoyances of the previous four books. It's a little like climbing a mountain: only when you [... more]
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The Way We Live Now (Penguin Classics)
Amazon.com Review: Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and his daughter's ill-use at the hands of a grasping lover (for whom she steals funds in order to elope) is a classic in the literature of [... more]
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Can You Forgive Her? (Penguin Classics)
Good at half the length.: I suppose it's not fair to pick on authors who are no longer alive to defend themselves, but I think that there is good reason that Jane Austen has enjoyed a renaissance and Trollope has not. I've been told over and over again [... more]
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The Last Chronicle of Barset (Penguin Classics)
last but not least...: The novel is finely written. The reader would do well to read the first five in the series, as this calls more than most on things from the past. Trollope delights in bringing and tying together most of the major characters of his [... more]
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Barchester Towers (Penguin Classics)
Amazon.com Review: This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, [... more]
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The Small House at Allington (Penguin Classics)
It's a good book: I liked this book, not as much as some of the others in the series, but it has its distinguishing points. As other reviewers note, the characters are well drawn and believable. I most of all enjoyed the squire and the earl. The squire [... more]
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The Warden (Penguin Classics)
No doom and gloom in this Victorian novel.: Although its principal character, Mr Harding, the Warden of Barchester, suffers abject misery and extreme anxiety during most of this novel, the reader of "The Warden" will enjoy one of the happiest, [... more]
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Phineas Redux (Penguin Classics)
Five Stars On Any Other Scale: How can one criticise a delicious chocolate in one's favourite box? Sheer enjoyment though by no means a perfect novel. The Bonteen murder thing does not survive re-readings. Madame Max never comes to life and as such one [... more]
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