Framley Parsonage: Introduction by Graham Handley (Chronicles of Barsetshire) - Hardcover

Trollope, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679431330 ISBN 13: 9780679431336

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1994

Synopsis

In the course of last century, Anthony Trollope's fictional county of Barset has become one of English literature's most 'real', most celebrated landscapes. Framley Parsonage--the fourth of his engrossing Barsetshire novels--concerns itself with the drastic misjudgements of an amiable but naive and overly ambitious young clergyman. Through its shrewd and excellent social comedy and subtle, sometimes wicked, grasp of political and ecclesiastical manoeuvering, Trollope brings a whole local universe to convincing and triumphant life.

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Review:

Convincingly argues that its narrative of "precarious livings and tenancy" displaces to Barsetshire topical concerns about land ownership and occupation in Ireland. (Matthew Ingleby, The Times Literary Supplement)

About the Author:

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was born in London to a bankrupt barrister father and a mother who, as a well-known writer, supported the family. Trollope enjoyed considerable acclaim both as a novelist and as a senior civil servant in the Post Office. He published more than forty novels and many short stories that are regarded by some as among the greatest of nineteenth-century fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679431330
• ISBN 13: 9780679431336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 632