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Title: Orley Farm (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton ISBN: 0192838563 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Stylistic Masterpiece
Comment: Trollope was a master of the domestic situation. There is a scarcity of dialogue in Orley Farm, but the detailed explanations of the emotions, surroundings, and background of each character offers so much more than dialogue ever could. Anthony Trollope's Orley Farm is by far the best fictionalized trial drama that I have ever read. One would be hard-pressed to find another like it.
I would offer the warning to those who dislike long, tedious readings that this work would not be for them. It is nearly 850 pages with very little action/dialogue. It more a study into the human psyche as it relates to guilt, pity, law, and the moral implications of all these things.
Rating: 5
Summary: Deja Vu All Over Again
Comment: Orley is simply timeless. Just as in the Palliser series, the characters are the people all around you, in the office, in the news, and on the tube. Trollope's ability to understand the subtle differences that shape the mind of men and women is simply uncanny. If you are a truth seeker, this is a book for you. Anyone with exposure to a legal system with its basis in the English common law will understand the perceptive analysis it is subjected to in Orley Farm. The distinction between evil deeds and the often sympathetic humans that are their authors is one that modern American culture often forgets to make. Orley Farm is here to remind us. As a trusts and estates lawyer, I can not believe that I practiced for fifteen years before someone told me about this gem.
Rating: 5
Summary: An elegant, subtle undermining of the legal system.
Comment: Orley Farm is Trollope at his most profound, and his most entertaining. It is difficult to ascertain what is best in this novel: the subtle, incisive examination of how legal systems cannot be impartial and, more fundamentally, how humankind looks after its own regardless of right and wrong; or the episodic journey with some of Trollope's most memorable (and always three dimensional) characters - the 'wrong' but completely empathic Lady Mason, the fiercely honourable Sir Peregrine Orme, the virile young Peregrine Orme and, most memorably, the gentle overwhelmed but staunchly loyal Mrs Orme - undergoing the pangs of Trollope's drama amidst ancient piles, undulating hedgerows and sequestered English fields.
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Title: He Knew He Was Right (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope, Frank Kermode, John Sutherland ISBN: 0140433910 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Claverings (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton ISBN: 0192837079 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Lady Anna (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Orgel ISBN: 0192837184 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Dr. Wortle's School (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope, Mick Imlah ISBN: 0140434046 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Doctor Thorne (Everyman Paperback Classics) by Anthony Trollope, James Kincaid ISBN: 046087604X Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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