Framley Parsonage (Penguin English Library) - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140432132 ISBN 13: 9780140432138

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1984

Synopsis

Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in influential circles, he agrees to guarantee a bill for a large sum of money for the disreputable local Member of Parliament, while being helped in his career in the Church by the same hand. But the unscrupulous politician reneges on his financial obligations, and Mark must face the consequences this debt may bring to his family. One of Trollope's most enduringly popular novels since it appeared in 1860, Framley Parsonage is an evocative depiction of country life in nineteenth-century England, told with great compassion and acute insight into human nature.

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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 (1815-82) was one of the most widely enjoyed and prolific novelists of the nineteenth century. His books include the great Chronicles of Barsetshire, of which Barchester Towers is the second volume. Trollope worked for the Post Office for much of his adult life, combining postal and literary business as he travelled around the British Empire. He has been credited with the creation of the distinctive British pillar box.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0140432132
• ISBN 13: 9780140432138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Skilton David, Miles Peter