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.

As with Doctor Thorne, Trollope leaves the confines of Barchester to look at the countryside. H

I'm grateful I've been reading Trollope's Barsetshire series in order because – although the central protagonists of this fourth book “Framley Parsonage” are new – there are a host of familiar characters in the background who are also integrally involved in some of the novel's side plots. Though I'm

Loved seeing the old characters coming back into things as well as some of the new characters. Overall, it was enjoyable, but this was the installment that I could most tell was originally written as a serial in terms of pacing and flow

This is my 4th book that I have read of this series, and it took about 8 chapters for me to really get into it, but once I did, it was a super read. Trollope uses his early chapters to set forth all the characters in his books, and this time I felt he got a little carried away early. But this is a b

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Il IV romanzo del celebre ciclo del Barset continua a non deludere affatto. Anche qui lo stile è inconfondibilmente inglese tipico della miglior letteratura dell'Età vittoriana, sulla scia di quella gloriosa tradizione in cui il piacere di narrare pare il presupposto del piacer

Trollope starts slow, then goes slower and after a bit you wonder... where... exactly... is any of this...

But then, almost without realizing it, you're deep into the often tedious lives of his characters. To this American (and probably most others), the types and concerns of these characters are pet