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Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope
Book Overview:
Orley Farm is Trollope at his best, which means some of the best characterizations in the English language. Trollope's people are real; the beleaguered Lady Mason, charged with forging a will; the aged lover Sir Peregrine Orme; Madeleine Stavely, deeply but practically in love; the shallow, fickle Sophia Furnival and others are 3-dimensional figures that live and breathe. His satire of the so-called "justice" system is the best kind of satire: he just describes the court proceedings as they really are. The result is as up-to-date as today's newspaper.
Orley Farm is Trollope at his best, which means some of the best characterizations in the English language. Trollope's people are real; the beleaguered Lady Mason, charged with forging a will; the aged lover Sir Peregrine Orme; Madeleine Stavely, deeply but practically in love; the shallow, fickle Sophia Furnival and others are 3-dimensional figures that live and breathe. His satire of the so-called "justice" system is the best kind of satire: he just describes the court proceedings as they really are. The result is as up-to-date as today's newspaper.
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"If you don't tell me what there is in it, I don't see what we are to do. I am sure you did not give yourself the trouble of coming up here from Hamworth merely with the object of telling us that you are going to hold your tongue."
"Certainly not, Mr. Round."
"Then what did you come to say?"
"May I ask you, Mr. Round, what Mr. Mason has told you with reference to my interview with him?"
"Yes; I will read you a part of his letter—'Mr. Dockwrath is of opinion that the will under which the estate is now enjoyed is absolutely a forgery.' I presume you mean the codicil, Mr. Dockwrath?"
"Oh yes! the codicil of course."
"'And he has in his pos. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
A new favorite Trollope!
This Trollope novel was not at all on my radar until this year and then I had it on my TBR for several months (May, July, August) and kept putting it off for other books. But of course it fits so perfectly into Victober and the time was right. I was a trifle apprehensive beca
When people ask me, "David, you're obviously a complete nut when it comes to Trollope. I've never read one of his novels, and he wrote so damned many. Which one should I try?", this is the one I recommend. Some in the Barsetshire and Palliser series may be better, but the first book in each of those
The characters of Joseph Mason and his stepmother Lady Mason, so sharply contrasted are consistent and totally believable. So are the former's resentment, smouldering for 20 years, and the strain on the latter, held at bay for the same period until her resolution is exhausted.
I loved this. A really fantastic Trollope book.