Anthony Trollope | Author Spotlight
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There are so many reasons to fall in love with Trollope... one of them is how kind he is to his readers. In Barchester Towers, for instance, he tells us in advance not to worry about the main female character (Mrs Bold, a young widow), since she won´t end up marrying any of the two fortune seekers who hover about her! So, we can read the book in peace, knowing in advance that things will work just fine for the good guys - and the good girls.
What a fun video! I am now reading "The Way We Live Now". Hard to put it down!
I consider Trollope as good a writer as Dickens, although I prefer Trollope because he is less verbous, less descriptive, and his narrating is quite passionate. He is like the English Balzac with regard to the general overview of English society and its mores. I've read almost all his novels and my favorite one is "The Way We Live Now". If you are going to read one of his novels, consider reading this one.
I love He Knew He Was Right. I've read it several times. It is fantastic!
Dr. Thorne was a miniseries. I think it's currently on amazon prime video. Anyhow, it's great!
The Way We Live Now is a great book. It’s the only Trollope I have read. Can’t wait to read more.
That's great! I have heard so many people say that one is their favorite of Trollope's works. I really need to read it soon!
I've read The Warden and The Way We Live Now. I thought both were great. I want to read other Trollope novels but may go back and read The Way We Live Now first. It was so good.
Yes, I have read all of his Barsetshire series and several of the others. As an aside, it is Allington, not Arlington. There are several Trollope books made into movies. Most recently Doctor Thorne.
Have you looked into Angela Thirkell? She wrote during the WWII era drawing on the places and people of the Barsetshire series. But using the grandchildren of the Trollope people in the same setting. The Thirkell books are best read in order as well, but I think the best one is called 'Northbridge Rectory'.
Highly recommend the BBC television series The Pallisers, starring Susan Hampshire as the dynamic and loveable Glencora. Another strong female character. Gorgeous costumes, too.
I'm reading the Barset series. I love it and The Way We Live Now. Its really good. I want to read more.
The only Trollope novels I have read are the Palliser novels and The American Senator. Politics and literature are my two great scholarly passions so the combination of the two was the main draw to him.
My favourite novel by Trollope is Phineas Finn. During lockdown, a group of friends and I had twice-weekly Zoom seminars and I did my presentation on the politics of Trollope on electoral reform, Irish tenant right, and gender relations through the Palliser series generally and Phineas Finn in particular. I am thinking of uploading it to TH-cam.
I have not seen any cinematic adaptations of Trollope. I just know the Barchester and Palliser BBC adaptations from the 1970s, both of which are magnificent.
I really enjoyed Barchester Towers and was particularly pleased when Obadiah Slope got his just desserts! However, much like Tolstoy and Flaubert, once I came to understand the world well, I felt a little like I was reading a soap opera rather than a novel!
Haha! It IS sort of soap opera-type drama sometimes, isn't it? Human nature never changes, even back in the old days. Happy REading!
Here I am commenting three years after this was posted. I recommend Trollope’s CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? It is thematically similar to Henry James’s THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, and it is almost as deep. I liked RALPH THE HEIR, although I was surprised to learn Trollope thought it was a mess. Trollope has to be one of the most consistent of great writers. He can invariably be counted on for clarity.
Can’t believe I’ve never read him! Will definitely put him on my want to read list.
That's great! Happy REading!
I love Trollope!👍🙏🥰
My favorite is small house at allington!!
I just finished _Can you Forgive Her?_ And I have to agree about being kind of bored at the political chapters!
I know, right?! Sometimes it's sort of a funny commentary on these pompous characters, but most of the time, it's just boring and complex.
Happy REading! I haven't read Can You Forgive Her yet. It's on my wishlist!
Lovely video you did. Please read more Trollope books eg Framley Parsonage,Can you forgive,, her He knew he was right,Dr Thorne etc. I have ordered from England about 16 Trollope books which are arriving now. As they are second hand paperbacks,they cost me $4-5/book.
This is a very old video! I’ve read a lot of Trollope since then. Most recently I read The Way We Live Now!
I read the first three in the B series by Trollope & was left with the feeling that I am not sure I want to read more. Like you, I was a bit bored by the politics & some other areas of the book seemed to be far too tedious to keep my attention ... my mind can wander easily if I am not kept rapt in a book?! :) So ... I may attempt to read some of his others in the future, just undecided right now AND I am totally INTO Wilkie Collins' books at the moment. I don't know if it is just me, but each book by Collins seems to be successively better than the last I read. I first read Moonstone, then Woman in White. I am now on #3 right (No Name) and it's lyrical & rythmic to me. I liken it to my first hearing Mozart/Beethoven symphonies ... greatly moving! In fact, I am so fascinated that I have ordered his biography "A Sensational Life" by Lycett so I can gain a greater understanding into Collins. I seldom read biographies on anyone, so I am greatly impressed by this author!
I will need to get back to ya on Trollope .... I think I have to read every book by Collins first??!! LOL I'm in LUV!
Haha! I also fell in love with Wilkie Collins! And you're right about his musical writing. Beautiful and haunting at times!
I think I mainly liked the Barsetshire books because they center around people connected with the clergy, and my dad is a pastor. So a lot of the circumstances of their family life and spiritual life really resonated with me, and strongly connected me to the characters. That connection kept me interested in reading despite the boring bits.
Happy Reading!
You r a PD huh. Tried Scenes of Clerical Life/Eliot?
No, I haven't, but it's on my wishlist. Thanks!
And how could I forget The Vicar of Wakefield/Goldsmith.
I LOVE Vicar of Wakefield!!! One of my favorites!
I’ve only read one Trollope book-Rachel Ray. It was a good start!
I've only read The Way We Live Now, which was good. The TV miniseries was good too.
I still need to watch the TV miniseries, but I want to read the book first! Happy REading!
Is it true that he wrote his books perfectly without any edits?
I don’t know. I have never heard that before, but I’m not sure.
i am re-appraising Mr. Slope...Barsetshire Chronicles)....perhaps the reality that his ambitions were crushed by a clique who believed that high church positions were rightfully theirs...what do you think...
Truthfully, it has been so many years since I read the book, that I can’t remember which character Mr. slope is.
Orley Farm is really great.
Thank you for the biographical info on Trollope. I think you hit on an important element in his
books, i.e., his strong female characters (like Shakespeare) and his insight into them. Where did
this come from? In case you haven't seen it, below is a link to an adaptation of The Warden/ Barchester Towers.
Henry James made the observation that if you want to understand your fellow human being better, read Anthony Trollope. Perhaps you agree? And he helps me laugh at myself!
th-cam.com/video/nDawi-HzNF8/w-d-xo.html
You must read He Knew He Was Right as well - another brilliant Trollope novel!
I've heard about this one, where the guy thinks his wife is cheating on him or something? And he just obsesses about it for the whole book. Someone told me to watch the BBC adaptation first, but do you think I should read it first?
Yep, that's right. It's brilliant though - utterly brilliant. I saw the television adaptation first but I love the book too and would probably recommend reading the book first.
That one is on your wish list 🤣🤣🤣