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The Small House at Allington: The Chronicles of Barsetshire
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Jul 18, 2014
bookshelves: author-anthony-trollope, british-authors-translators, british-literature, everymans-library-editions, historical-fiction, my-western-canon, victorian-literature, read-in-2014, oxford-worlds-classics-paperback
Like Trollope's terrific novel, Doctor Thorne, there's a lot of Jane Austen in The Small House at Allington. A quiet and pleasant and pastoral novel that slowly enfolds you in its embrace. This is the story of the rhymes and reasons and the will and passions that guide a small group of young women and men as they endeavor to find love, and it is ever so entertaining. It can be frustrating at times too, as I found myself wanting to scream at Miss Lily Dale to get her pretty head out of her own *ss and realize that a very good life was well within her grasp. Oh well, it'd have not been much of plot if she'd done that early on. In short, this is a very satisfying novel and a Trollope that I am glad that I read and unhesitatingly recommend.
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“And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.”
― The Small House at Allington
― The Small House at Allington
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Nov 15, 2014 09:26AM
Are you planning to read the entire Barsetshire series? Trollope creates a story arc which takes in the lives of so many characters, yet somehow the individual books can stand alone too. But the series as a whole is a very satisfying read.
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Uncle wrote: "Are you planning to read the entire Barsetshire series? Trollope creates a story arc which takes in the lives of so many characters, yet somehow the individual books can stand alone too. But the s..."Thanks for dropping by! Yep, I do plan on reading both the Barsetshire novels as well as the Palliser novels. I've read a number of both so far. I think Trollope is just a great story-teller!
I have not read anything by Trollope. Can you suggest a novel to start with?
Amalie, I highly recommend "Dr. Thorne" as a good 'starter' Trollope. A really terrific novel!
