1815: Anthony Trollope - Chronicles of Barsetshire VI: The Last Chronicle of Barset
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1edwinbcn
The Last Chronicle of Barset is the final novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in 1867.
2MissWatson
I have finished this at last. It is a wonderful book, and I am sad to part with some nice friends. I especially admired how Trollope makes us understand the inner life of Rev. Crawley while all the time we want to knock some common sense into him.
3rebeccanyc
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
This novel brings back many familiar characters (which I appreciated) and some new ones. It mainly tells the story of the Reverend Crawley (who readers will remember from earlier volumes) who is accused of stealing a check and using it to pay a bill at the butcher. He recalls that it came from Dean Arabin in a packet of bills, but the Dean denies that the check was in the packet. So consequently he begins to doubt himself and think that he really stole it; he sinks into a depressive state. This and the consequences of it form a big part of this novel.
The son of the Grantlys, Major Grantly, is in love with Grace Crawley, the elder daughter of the Crawleys, and she with him. This strikes horror in his parents, mainly his father the Archdeacon, who don't want him to marry beneath him, let alone the daughter of an accused thief.
But as in all of Trollope, there as subplots. The main one involves Johnny Eames who is still in love with Lily Dale, who steadfastly maintains she will not marry him even after seeing the man who threw her over twice and realizing she is no longer in love with him. John has a friend who's an artist, Conway Dalrymple, who paints pictures of real women in classical settings. Dalrymple invites him to a dinner party at another woman's house, where John meets various people who will figure in the subplots. They are too complicated for me to explain, but John goes to Italy to meet Mrs. Arabin, who solves the mystery of the missing check; John is a cousin of the Crawleys. There is also a lawyer with the delightful name of Mr. Toogood, who is related to the Crawleys too.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, and am sad that I've come to the end of the Barsetshire novels, as I was about the Palliser series last year. How will I get my Trollope fix?
This novel brings back many familiar characters (which I appreciated) and some new ones. It mainly tells the story of the Reverend Crawley (who readers will remember from earlier volumes) who is accused of stealing a check and using it to pay a bill at the butcher. He recalls that it came from Dean Arabin in a packet of bills, but the Dean denies that the check was in the packet. So consequently he begins to doubt himself and think that he really stole it; he sinks into a depressive state. This and the consequences of it form a big part of this novel.
The son of the Grantlys, Major Grantly, is in love with Grace Crawley, the elder daughter of the Crawleys, and she with him. This strikes horror in his parents, mainly his father the Archdeacon, who don't want him to marry beneath him, let alone the daughter of an accused thief.
But as in all of Trollope, there as subplots. The main one involves Johnny Eames who is still in love with Lily Dale, who steadfastly maintains she will not marry him even after seeing the man who threw her over twice and realizing she is no longer in love with him. John has a friend who's an artist, Conway Dalrymple, who paints pictures of real women in classical settings. Dalrymple invites him to a dinner party at another woman's house, where John meets various people who will figure in the subplots. They are too complicated for me to explain, but John goes to Italy to meet Mrs. Arabin, who solves the mystery of the missing check; John is a cousin of the Crawleys. There is also a lawyer with the delightful name of Mr. Toogood, who is related to the Crawleys too.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, and am sad that I've come to the end of the Barsetshire novels, as I was about the Palliser series last year. How will I get my Trollope fix?
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