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The Kellys and the O'Kellys
Anthony Trollope
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Anty did not want much persuading. She was soon induced to get up and dress herself, to put on her cloak and bonnet, and hurry off with the widow, before the people of Dunmore should be up to look at her going through the town to the inn; while Biddy was left to pack up such things as were necessary for her mistress' use, and enjoined to hurry down with them to the inn as quick as she could; for, as the widow said, "there war no use in letting every idle bosthoon [13] in the place see her crossing with a lot of baggage, and set them all asking the where and the why and the wherefore; though, for the matther of that, they'd all hear it soon enough."
To tell the truth, Mrs Kelly's courage waned from the moment of her leaving her own door, and it did not return till she felt herself within it again. Indeed, as she was leaving the gate of Dunmore House, with Anty on her arm, she . . . Read More
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The Kellys and the O'Kellys: Or Landlords and Tenants is probably the first indicator that, at this early juncture (1848), Anthony Trollope was destined to become perhaps a great writer, or, at the very least, a first-rank one. The urge to write came upon him while he was working for the British Pos
I have fatigued the reader with the long history of past affairs...
You got that right, Mr. Trollope.
I read Trollope for his character descriptions and his knowledge of human nature. Not for nineteenth century Irish politics.
But once he left politics behind, the story intrigued. Doubling is one of
It took me about 20% to get into this book of Trollope's, and, if he hadn't been an author I knew I liked, I probably wouldn't have bothered. However, once they were done talking boring politics and I had everyone straight in my head, it was a good read!
Two engagement stories parallel each other, on
One of my favourite Lucky Luke comics is Les Rivaux de Painful Gulch which tells the fascinating story of the conflict between the O'Timmins and the O'Haras. The title of this Trollope makes me think about that. Only there is no conflict between the Kelly’s and the O'Kelly’s. In fact the heroes of o
This is Trollope's second novel. It is better than his first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, and, like it, is set in Ireland, where Trollope lived for several years while working for the British post office. (Important trivia: Trollope is the inventor of the mailbox. Not the one at your door,
First sentence: During the first two months of the year 1844, the greatest possible excitement existed in Dublin respecting the State Trials, in which Mr O’Connell, his son, the Editors of three different repeal newspapers, Tom Steele, the Rev. Mr Tierney — a priest who had taken a somewhat prominen