The Barsetshire Chronicles - All 6 Books in One Edition: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington & The Last Chronicle of Barset

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a b c Turner, Mark W. (23 December 2010), "Trollope's Literary Life and Times", The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope, Cambridge University Press, pp.6–16, doi: 10.1017/ccol9780521886369.002, ISBN 978-0-521-88636-9 , retrieved 31 October 2020 So, once again, a moderately entertaining but not engrossing time travel into the world of English clerical intrigue. a b Wright, Andrew (1983). Anthony Trollope: Dream and Art. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-06626-1. It is difficult to review Framley Parsonage without also discussing Doctor Thorne. The romantic half of the novel seemed to me a revision of the romantic plot of Doctor Thorne, though a far superior model.

There are representatives of the high church in the Grantly faction, Tory by political leaning, and the newly established Proudie faction, Whigs, unfortunately, represented by not only the spineless Bishop Proudie and his oppressive wife, but also by our most obvious villain, Obadiah Slope (his name makes you cringe, does it not?). Trollope is a master of description and I had no difficulty in reading Mr. Slope’s character in his demeanor. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Poovey, Mary (23 December 2010), "Trollope's Barsetshire Series", The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope, Cambridge University Press, pp.31–43, doi: 10.1017/ccol9780521886369.004, ISBN 978-0-521-88636-9 , retrieved 26 September 2020 Trollope σε συντροφεύει σαν Συν-αναγνώστης όπου ανακαλύπτει και αυτός μαζί σου για πρώτη φορά το βιβλίο. Πολλές φορές, σχολιάζοντας τις πράξεις των ηρώων του σαν να σχολιάζει ένα άρθρο εφημερίδας, έκοβε τον δεσμό που έχει κάθε συγγραφέας με τους ήρωες του. Χαιρόταν με τις θετικές εξελίξεις και εκνευριζόταν με την συμπεριφορά ορισμένων ηρώων. Με αυτόν τον τρόπο έδινε την ψευδαίσθηση ότι δεν γνωρίζει τους ήρωες του και ότι τους ανακαλύπτει παρέα με τον αναγνώστη προσδίδοντάς τους μια αυθεντικότητα και αληθοφάνεια. I started my grand read-and-review of the Barsetshire Chronicles over at The Geek Girl Project. My review of The Warden is up there, as is my review of Barchester Towers. My review of Dr. Thorne was on Bookwyrme's Lair last week. I will be posting a review a week there until the series' en.Chruch politics continues here on a full scale, and I was surprised to find with what little favour Trollope has portrayed his clergy. :) However, they hugely contributed to the enjoyment of the story. In Barchester Tower, Trollope introduces one of the sliest clergymen in Victorian literature in the shape of Obadiah Slope. Even though he isn't the protagonist, his role in the story justified my considering him as such, for the whole story nearly revolves around him. Odious though he may be, and annoying enough to feel like boxing his ears yourself as Eleanor did, he certainly provides the foremost entertainment of the story. :)

The Chronicles of Barsetshire were also commended by other authors. Margaret Oliphant called the series "the most perfect art […] a kind of inspiration", [3] while Virginia Woolf wrote: "We believe in Barchester as we believe in the reality of our own weekly bills". [25] Criticism [ edit ]Die Handlung ist schnell wiedergegeben: Der alte Bischof – Hardings Freund und zugleich Vater eines seiner Schwiegersöhne, des Erzdiakons Grantly – ist tot. Da sein Ableben in eine Zeit politischer wie gesellschaftlicher Umwälzungen fällt, sieht die Stadt, allen voran der Erzdiakon selbst, mit bangem Interesse dem neu zu bestimmenden Nachfolger entgegen. Als der benannt ist, stellt sich bald heraus, daß es kaum dieser selbst sein wird, der die Amtsgeschäfte führt, sondern hinter den Kulissen ein Kampf zwischen seiner Gattin und dem Kaplan Slope tobt, die beide ihren Einfluß auf den Bischof zu erweitern suchen. Daraus resultiert ein regelrechter Krieg um Ämter, Posten und die Herzen der entscheidenden Beteiligten – oder besser gesagt derer, die für entscheidend gehalten werden. Denn Hardings jüngere Tochter, mittlerweile verwitwet, steht mit ihrem Ansehen, mehr noch aufgrund ihres guten Jahreseinkommens, recht hoch auf der Liste der noch oder neu zu vergebenden Damen der Stadt. Und nichts würde Erzdiakon Grantly mehr ärgern, als die Vermählung seiner Schwägerin mit dem windigen Slope, der offenkundig um sie wirbt und dem sie – in Grantlys Augen zumindest – viel zu viel Aufmerksamkeit widmet. He ventures to reprobate that system which goes so far to violate all proper confidence between the author and his readers, by maintaining nearly to the end of the third volume a mystery as to the fate of their favourite personage. Nay, more, and worse than this is too frequently done. Have not often the profoundest efforts of genius been used to baffle the aspirations of the reader, to raise false hopes and false fears, and to give rise to expectations which are never to be realized? Are not promises all but made of delightful horrors, in lieu of which the writer produces nothing but most commonplace realities in his final chapter? And is there not a species of deceit in this to which the honesty of the present age should lend no countenance? stars. Oh, how I enjoyed this book! For years, I thought Trollope was stuffy and dry. I don't know where I got this idea from, but it's the furthest from the truth. This is the fourth book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, and they get better and better as they go. In spite of the entertaining intrigue and plentiful satire, I personally couldn't get rid of the sense of being caught in a petty storm in a Barchester teacup. Signora Madeline Vesey Neroni née Madeline Stanhope, daughter of a cleric returned from Italy to Barchester with his family - “Madame Neroni, though forced to give up all motion in the world, had no intention whatever of giving up the world itself. The beauty of her face was uninjured, and that beauty was of a peculiar kind. Her copious rich brown hair was worn in Grecian bandeaux round her head, displaying as much as possible of her forehead and cheeks. Her forehead, though rather low, was very beautiful from its perfect contour and pearly whiteness. Her eyes were long and large, and marvelously bright; might I venture to say bright as Lucifer's...” Anthony Trollope both describes and examines the various ways the Signora, sitting up on her coach, traps men as if a spider trapping flies in her web. Satire so stinging, as a man reading the novel, I almost had to hold the book at a distance from my eyes so as to avoid the Signora trapping me as well.

Knowles, Elisabeth (2006). The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Barchester). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191727047. Imagine Alexander Dumas confined to the realms of Anglican church and limited to the settings of deanery and parsonage -- then Barchester Town would be his Three Musketeers: clerical passions rage over comfortable livings and powerful positions, clash over the burning matter of High Church rituals versus Evangelical alternatives; evil chaplains, coward bishops and their power-hungry wives plot against kind precentors, bold archdeacons, thoughtful vicars and charming widows.At the outset of the story, a "war" begins between Mr. Slope and Dr. Grantly. Neither being ready to surrender, they keep on at it, finding their own allies in the course - Mr. Slope within the robes of the bishop, and Dr. Grantly in the scholarly mind of Mr. Arabin. I wouldn't venture to say the outcome of the battle; that'd spoil the story. But I could certainly say that the subtle battle between these two factions of the clergy was far more entertaining than any real battle could. :) Dr. Grantly is portrayed in a much different light here. Although he hasn't greatly outgrown his arrogance and presumptive nature, his feeling of utter helplessness when things work against him, and his resignation to those inevitable, showed a human side to him not seen before. Mr. Obadiah Slope, the bishop's chaplain - “Of the Rev. Mr. Slope's parentage I am not able to say much. I have heard it asserted that he is lineally descended from that eminent physician who assisted at the birth of Mr. T. Shandy, and that in early years he added an "e" to his name, for the sake of euphony, as other great men have done before him.” Gotta love Anthony Trollope's reference to Tristram Shandy. Every single scene featuring Mr. Slope is a dark, lustrous gem since he's a man that could be characterized as the perfect cross between Iago and fire-breathing preacher Jonathan Edwards with Richard III's thirst for power added as icing on the diabolical cake. Sutherland points out that in the early chapters Trollope describes the Proudies as intending to spend as much time as possible in London, leaving the field clear for Slope to act on his own in Barchester with the action easily contained in a single-volume novel: in Chapter IV, Slope thinks to himself that, in the Proudies' anticipated absences in London, "he, therefore, he, Mr Slope, would in effect be bishop of Barchester". But when Trollope resumed the composition of Barchester Towers in May 1856, planning the eventual three-volume novel as a result of the unexpectedly increasing sales of The Warden in late 1855, he expanded the text by keeping the Proudies in Barchester and introducing a number of new characters who had not appeared in the earlier chapters - the Stanhopes, Mr Arabin, and the Thornes among others.