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This is my 21st Trollope and he continues to delight me. To quote Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Have you ever read the novels of Anthony Trollope? They precisely suit my taste; solid, substantial, written on strength of beef and through inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were made a show of." This is one of Trollope's great comic novels with a scoundrel title character that you can't help but admire. The usual gallery of Trollope types show up as well: the handsome, deserving young man, the stalwart Victorian maiden he loves, a wastrel sons, etc. There is even a miniature version of my beloved Miss Dunstable who in this book appears as a prospective bride who is not quite the pushover the man proposing to her first thinks. There is social criticism of lawyers and the leisure class as well A delightful read

2023-07-26 08:17