Anthony Trollope

Serenoli · 01-20-2006, 10:43 AM

Until I came across one of his books I never even heard of him, and I remember I was really shocked at how good he turned out to be... it was like a treat carefully hidden away from me! So, anyways, are there any other Trollope fans like me out there?

sun-star · 01-21-2006, 11:55 AM

Yes, I really like Trollope. He's not very fashionable, so people don't talk about him much, but he's a lot of fun! I've read Barchester Towers, The Warden, Framley Parsonage and Can You Forgive Her?. I especially like how he brings characters from one novel into another, so that he creates his own world, a whole parallel Victorian society...

Serenoli · 01-22-2006, 05:05 AM

Finally! and there was I thinking I was the only one who liked him...

I have read around a dozen of his books, and I loved too the way he re-introduces characters... and how the same charcter is perceived differently in each novel, because they're all from different points of views.

Hasty Ent · 01-22-2006, 11:35 PM

I adore Trollope. Read Barchester Chronicles and a few others I can't recall. Favorite would have to be The Way We Live Now. Absolutely brilliant book.

Serenoli · 01-23-2006, 08:59 AM

I read it quite a while ago, but I remember I liked the Palliser novels more. Also Mary Thorne. Barchester Towers is a favourite too.

Hasty Ent · 01-23-2006, 10:59 AM

Did he write The Eustace Diamonds? I bought a very old copy in a used bookstore eons ago, lovely little book, beautifully bound and a good novel, too, I seem to recall.

Serenoli · 01-24-2006, 10:27 AM

Yes, its one of the Palliser novels, and in my opinion, one of the most fun books he ever wrote.

01-20-2006, 10:43 AM	#1
Serenoli Head of the Department for the Invention and Propagation of Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ithilien Posts: 852	Anthony Trollope Until I came across one of his books I never even heard of him, and I remember I was really shocked at how good he turned out to be... it was like a treat carefully hidden away from me! So, anyways, are there any other Trollope fans like me out there? __________________ "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." -Terry Pratchett, Sourcery Join the Harry Potter discussion, click here

01-21-2006, 11:55 AM	#2
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Yes, I really like Trollope. He's not very fashionable, so people don't talk about him much, but he's a lot of fun! I've read Barchester Towers, The Warden, Framley Parsonage and Can You Forgive Her?. I especially like how he brings characters from one novel into another, so that he creates his own world, a whole parallel Victorian society... __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

01-22-2006, 05:05 AM	#3
Serenoli Head of the Department for the Invention and Propagation of Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ithilien Posts: 852	Finally! and there was I thinking I was the only one who liked him... I have read around a dozen of his books, and I loved too the way he re-introduces characters... and how the same charcter is perceived differently in each novel, because they're all from different points of views. __________________ "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." -Terry Pratchett, Sourcery Join the Harry Potter discussion, click here

01-23-2006, 08:59 AM	#5
Serenoli Head of the Department for the Invention and Propagation of Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ithilien Posts: 852	I read it quite a while ago, but I remember I liked the Palliser novels more. Also Mary Thorne. Barchester Towers is a favourite too. __________________ "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." -Terry Pratchett, Sourcery Join the Harry Potter discussion, click here

01-24-2006, 10:27 AM	#7
Serenoli Head of the Department for the Invention and Propagation of Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ithilien Posts: 852	Yes, its one of the Palliser novels, and in my opinion, one of the most fun books he ever wrote. __________________ "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." -Terry Pratchett, Sourcery Join the Harry Potter discussion, click here

01-22-2006, 11:35 PM	#4
Hasty Ent Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 516	I adore Trollope. Read Barchester Chronicles and a few others I can't recall. Favorite would have to be The Way We Live Now. Absolutely brilliant book.

01-23-2006, 10:59 AM	#6
Hasty Ent Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 516	Did he write The Eustace Diamonds? I bought a very old copy in a used bookstore eons ago, lovely little book, beautifully bound and a good novel, too, I seem to recall.

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