The Way We Live Now
Written by Anthony Trollope
Narrated by David Shaw-Parker
4.5/5
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was the third son of a barrister, who ruined his family by giving up the law for farming, and an industrious mother. After attending Winchester and Harrow, Trollope scraped into the General Post Office, London, in 1834, where he worked for seven years. In 1841 he was transferred to Ireland as a surveyor's clerk, and in 1844 married and settled at Clonmel. His first two novels were devoted to Irish life; his third, La Vendée, was historical. All were failures. After a distinguished career in the GPO, for which he invented the pillar box and travelled extensively abroad, Trollope resigned in 1867, earning his living from writing instead. He led an extensive social life, from which he drew material for his many social and political novels. The idea for The Warden (1855), the first of the six Barsetshire novels, came from a visit to Salisbury Close; with it came the characters whose fortunes were explored through the succeeding volumes, of which Doctor Thorne is the third.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Certainly, along with Middlemarch, Wuthering Heights, and Bleak House, one of the supreme canonical English novels of the 19th Century. Some say this novel is about the power and illusion of Money. It is certainly about that. But above all, it is about the emergence of that illusive thing called ‘character’ out of the tragedy and comedy of human personalities. What an honor to read!
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Classic Trollope! Characters and class rank abound in his fashion.
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