Snag Orley Farm Fabricated By Anthony Trollope Distributed As Interactive EBook

is my tenth Trollope, if Im counting right and while I have really enjoyed reading them all, this one had me literally hooked right from the beginning and I couldnt wait to get back to it, each time I put it down at aboutpages, no way this could be read in one go.
Trollope shows once again that he knows people and aspects of life and relationshipslove, friendship, jealousy, the zealousness of youth and its tendency to see things much more in black and white, and follies of the young and the old.
And he certainly also knows how to tell a story or, in this case several interwoven storiesall of which hold ones interest, but particularly the central tale of the Orley Farm case in which while the did she do it does not remain a mystery for long, the outcome of the trial does till almost the end.
An excellent read. Did Trollope need an editor On one hand, this is a long book and sometimes the leisurely pace makes you wish he would skip quickly to more exciting subplots, On the other hand, maybe you should just relax and enjoy the ride, And I did! The book is filled with suspense, great characters, interesting historical observations and a surprising number of laughoutloud moments The battle of the 'mercial room! Dinner at Groby Park! The demise of Martha Biggs! The ever mercenary Miss Furnival!.
That said, I'm not sure I'll be tackling another Trollope any time soon, So to answer the initial question: yes, Trollope probably could've used an editor von Bauhr's dream! but one with a light touch,
A most excellent novel! Like Dickens, Trollope goes after a particular facet of English life in most of his novels and makes you understand why you should care, or be concerned.
In this instance, it is the legal profession and the right and wrong decisions that people make, There's something about every Trollope novel that I've read that just slowly but surely draws me in until I simply can't put the book down, This guy is so underrated by many, and I just can'tfor the life of meunderstand why, "Orley Farm" is a great novel! Loved this book,
Even though we know the outcome Trollope just draws you in,
Found this utterly compelling,
Wonderful characters some to love and some to hate,
Is Lady Mason guilty
You will have to read to find out! I gotta take a Trollope tap out for awhile, He just ddrrraaagggssss everything out sooooo much I just cant for awhile, Perhaps unsurprisingly, this feels the most complete of all the Trollope novels I've read, which should be little surprise, As a concantenation of the

disparate parts that made up the Barchester world, but with legal proceedings as the central animating force of the plot and little time for ecclesiastic politics, the focus of Orley Farm is severly constricted.
. . for a novel by Anthony Trollope,

Complete doesn't necessarily mean best, however, and it is difficult to compare this to a series of novels such as Barchester, Instead, it bears comparison to Dickens' Bleak House, but with a keen eye on the alluring powers of the criminal party and with some hostility toward the meanspirits that so often prove the motors of longlived court cases.
All is done with characteristic care and inversions of the expected, which becomes about expected given the author, and the cast runs from solicitors, barristers, and tradespeople to the gentry and their extended families.


There are the usual marriages, relationships, and hostilities, but also pleasant eccentricities and particularities, These range from ironworked furniture to the woman at the centre of the whole affair, Lady Mason, whose character is a major point of interest for readers, Her son, Lucius Mason, also proves a fascinating foil for a barrister, Felix Graham, who along with young Peregrine Orme set us an interesting play of models of masculinity in a world moving on from gentility and towards reform Graham or revolution Mason, given the strong intimations of his studies of Marx and Engels, but the absolute unlikeliness of the present form of governance to continue Orme.


Perhaps on to the Pallister series Orley Farm is a hell of a high from which to depart! Did Lady Mason forge her late husband's will

We learn the answer to that question early enough, but that is not the point to this story.
Her guilt or innocence is beside the point, We must hear from the British class system, And, of more consequence, what of the British system of justice

The word 'verdict' comes from the Latin veredictum, and literally means "to say the truth".
Then, now, here, there do not imagine that that hallowed derivation is reality,

"I have an idea that all lawyers are liars," a character says early on, Trollope and this was my first Trollope shows us that some are and some are not, His cynicism is more nuanced than that of the quoted character, but enough so that he understands a trial is not a search for the truth, Speaking as the author to the reader Trollope intrudes himself in this way, but not annoyingly Trollope says, "I cannot understand how any gentleman can be willing to use his intellect for the propagation of untruth, and to be paid for so using it.
" The case is deemed to need the services of the brilliant Mr, Chaffanbrass, who "well understood that the defence of injured innocence was no part of his mission, "

Another lawyer is Solomon Aram, highly skilled, acutely aware but a Jew, Trollope deals with the antiSemitism matteroffactly, It made me wince for all the Realism of it, but made me also think of more Then, now, here, there,

One witness tried to tell the truth but he was spectacularly no good at it, so bad in fact that the trial judge charged the jury that they could take it as a given that the witness was stupid.
With friends after the trial, the poor witness hangs his head, as despondent as a soul can be, One friend, in a fortified attempt at commiseration, says "what does it matter if all the judges in the land was to call him stupid, " To which another friend solemnly intones, "Stupid is as stupid does, " So, do not believe that Forrest Gump said it first,

This will not be my last Trollope,



This reminded me, repeatedly, of a scene from Pete Dexter's sitelink Paris Trout, Mrs. McNutt is on the stand and being crossexamined:

"I told the truth about it, You can make it look any which way now, but I told how it happened,

Seagraves said, "That's what we called the jury for, to decide, "

She turned then, looking directly at them, "They don't decide what happened," she said, "It's already done. All they decide is if they gone do something about it, " This was the first but hopefully not the last Trollope book I have read, I thought the writing, so personal as if directed solely at me was exceptional, It was easy to follow the life and times of the characters as they ranged between love and the law, It was an all inclusive book that covered so many aspects of Victorian life and answered the question of what makes one a noble person,

I enjoyed all the characters and thought the author did a wonderful job of making them real and ever so vulnerable, This was said to be Trollope's favorite book, This is my fourth book by Trollope after Lady Anna that left me with mixed feelings, Dr, Wortle's School that I really liked and The Warden that was a little disappointing after the last one, Orley Farm is definitely the best of those four book by Trollope I've read so far,

First, it has all the elements the author include in his work, but it's longer and so more developed than shorter novels, Once again, the way he wrote his charaters is really believable: you feel like you're watching this story unfold before your eyes instead of just reading it, I already mentioned in previous reviews that for me, Trollope's best quality in his novels was the characterization of his characters and Orley Farm proves it once again, All the characters are believable and interesting, even though Lady Mason is by far my favorite because of her complexity, The various cast of female charaters is also interesting, especially since they're written by a man who does it very well, Then, there's the story itself which has been the most appealing to me so far: the will, the court, the judgement, the reactions, the humor, the end which can be judged as outrageous.
The subplots were also verywell handled, I was totally involved while I was reading this, which I admit is the first time since I started to read Trollope, and I'm very glad I picked this novel that I can only recommend to everyone.
Ive been longing to review this wonderful book and its taken me too long to get to it and its just not as fresh on my mind as it was.
Mores the pity.

This was an incredibly powerful book! Truly another Trollope masterpiece, Actually, Mr. Trollope mentioned during his lifetime that this was his favorite creation, He felt like it was a perfect mix of sensation and politics or truth about humanitya book with a fascinating and fastpaced story no one could put down paired with political talk that made sense, wasnt too preachy or lengthy, that fit right in with the story.
This book was nearerpages than, yet it wasnt long enoughI wanted more! Still, it had a satisfying, natural ending, To me, thats the mark of a great story,

I can hardly tell anything about the story without giving the plot away, so that makes reviewing a little bit difficult, The story centers around a very wealthy man who lost his first wife early in life leaving a few children, and then married again late in life, He and his second wife had a son, to whom the man supposedly left one small part of his property, This infuriated his eldest son, who caused the will to be contested, The son lost the suit, but never got over it, The young wife and son lived on at the property in question, Orley Farm, until years later when circumstances occurred which caused this eldest son to again contest the will in court.


The politics of the work revolve around how Mr, Trollope felt about the judicial courts of England at the time, He wondered at the way lawyers/attorneys/barristersmany of them good mencould confidently and vigorously defend a guilty person while retaining a clear conscience, under the impression that such was the way of the world, and it was their profession.
The question still remains, and Mr, Trollope puts his own unique stamp, and his own credulity at how that could be, on it, of course,

The characters were wonderful, particularly the Orme and Staveley familiesevery one of them, The devotion and true, honest, loving, respectful relationships in both families was breathtaking, Madeline Staveleys respect for her parents and theirs for her was model, Judge Stavelely and Sir Peregrine Orme were each adorable men in different ways, The honesty and good judgment of the first and the chivalry, loyalty and charity of the second was, again, model,

There were more unlikeable characters in this book than in other Trollopes Ive read, Usually Mr. Trollope tried to show an understandable and therefore sympathetic side to most of his villains but there wasnt much in the Joseph Mason family or for Mr, Dockwrath to find worthy of sympathy,

And the side characters like the Moulder and the Furnival families made the story even more rich,

Thats about all I have time and thought for, and Im sure none of what I said made anyone want to spend the time on this almostpage book.
So Ill finish with the thought that its been a while since I spent that much time with what is really, truly a GREAT book, The entire moral fibre was outstanding, The more time I spend with Trollope, the more I respect his work and the man he must have been to create the body, type and quality of work he did.
I would have loved to have been able to look inside his headthe sheer amount of thought, and the important, applicable character of his thought is almost overwhelming for a person like me who spends the most of my daily life thinking of such mundane things.
Hes become a serious rival in my affections alongside Mr, Dickensand for those of you who know how I love Dickens, thats great praise indeed,
Two things are interesting to know about this bookit was Trollopes favorite and George Orwell highly acclaimed it and is quoted to have said it to be, “one of the most brilliant descriptions of a lawsuit in English fiction.
” Source: Wikipedia

The story circles around a court case once tried and then taken up again twenty years later, At the death of Joseph Mason, his young second wife and their infant son inherit the familys estate, The will, an accompanying codicil and, as a result, the entire inheritance are brought into question, Besides the focus upon the failings of the legal system, the storys central themes are guilt and redemption,

What makes the story special and above the ordinary is the skill with which Trollope shows how events play out in the lives of the characters, The character portrayals are what make the novel worth reading, There is a full cast of characters, They vary widelyin age, social standing, occupation and personality, The problems that arise are different for each, There are love attractions, as there are in all of Trollopes stories, The telling is alternately amusing and heartbreaking, Observing how the different characters behave and think is the focus of the readers attention, Some suffer horribly. Others nonchalantly breeze through with scarcely a worry or a thought, It is the variety of characters, all well drawn, that make the book noteworthy, Trollopes ability to understand what makes people tick is exceptional, You are sure to find a character or two that speaks directly to YOU!

I love how Trollope inserts himself into the telling of the tale, talking directly to his readers, voicing his personal views on ageing, mortality, morality, justice, love, honesty and religion.


Often at the start of Trollopes books, I worry a bit, I ask myself if I will be able to keep straight all the different characters, Trollope manages to make his character distinct and memorable, They come alive. By the books end you know exactly who is who, One has favorites as well as characters you despise, For me, I love the elderly Sir Peregrine Orme, his daughterinlaw and the whole Staveley family, Each for different reasons of course,

I listened to this as a recording at Librovox, It is read by Leonard Wilson, Given that the sites readers are not professional, the reading here is exceptionally good, The narration I have given four, This is an unusually high rating for a Librivox narration,

For those of you who like indepth character portrayals, sitelinkOrley Farm should not be missed, The story is long and you sink into another world, The characters are varied and you come to know them well,



Palliser Series:
, sitelinkCan You Forgive Herstars
, sitelinkPhineas Finnstars

Standalones:
sitelinkThe Vicar of Bullhamptonstars
sitelinkOrley Farmstars
sitelinkMiss Mackenziestars
sitelinkDr.
Wortle's Schoolstars
sitelinkSir Harry Hotspur Of Humblethwaitestars
sitelinkThe Way We Live Nowstar


Chronicles of Barsetshire:
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sitelinkThe Wardenstars
, sitelinkBarchester Towersstars
, sitelinkDr. Thornestars
. sitelinkFramley Parsonagestars
, sitelinkThe Small House at Allingtonstars
, sitelinkThe Last Chronicle of Barsetstars,