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    Orley Farm

    By Anthony Trollope

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    With its concern for social issues and its extensive coverage of middle-class and landed life, 'Orley Farm' is a novel that demands attention in the rich field of nineteenth-century fiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 2014
    ISBN9781609779856
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    Anthony Trollope

    Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was the third son of a barrister, who ruined his family by giving up the law for farming, and an industrious mother. After attending Winchester and Harrow, Trollope scraped into the General Post Office, London, in 1834, where he worked for seven years. In 1841 he was transferred to Ireland as a surveyor's clerk, and in 1844 married and settled at Clonmel. His first two novels were devoted to Irish life; his third, La Vendée, was historical. All were failures. After a distinguished career in the GPO, for which he invented the pillar box and travelled extensively abroad, Trollope resigned in 1867, earning his living from writing instead. He led an extensive social life, from which he drew material for his many social and political novels. The idea for The Warden (1855), the first of the six Barsetshire novels, came from a visit to Salisbury Close; with it came the characters whose fortunes were explored through the succeeding volumes, of which Doctor Thorne is the third.

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    • 5/5
      This is perhaps the most unusual of all Trollope's books. The ending is quite extraordinary, morally outrageous even today or perhaps especially in this day and age, just absolutely disgusting.

      Trollope writes these long sagas that contain multiple small plots, usually romantic, and writes the characters so well that you get quite involved and this book does not disappoint in this.

      The plot seems to have been written about in just about every review so there is no point in the artificial drama of putting a 'spoiler' here, although personally I really am not keen on reviews that are more synopses of the book. I like to read what people thought of a book more than what the book was about.

      A young man comes of age and takes control of the property he inherited away from his mother who has been in control until then. He isn't a bad lad but he thinks he knows more about business than he does and his first action is to evict the tenant farmer so that he might put the land to more profitable use himself.

      The impestuous young lad's father who had owned the land had dispossessed his eldest son and left it to his son by his second wife by means of a codicil to his Will, signed by a couple of servants. This Will had been tested in court by the eldest son, the rightful heir, but he had lost.

      The farmer had known that the codicil was not genuine but since he was benefiting from the land, had said nothing for all these years. Now, though, enraged by his summary eviction, he goes after revenge.

      Lady Mason, the beautiful, relatively young widow, marshalls all possible support, legal and otherwise for the defence of the Will and her good name, but eventually confesses to a friend that she did indeed forge both the codicil and the signatures which were on a completely different legal document.

      The case comes to court, the lawyer makes a total fool of one of the witnesses to the codicil, as lawyers do, and the Lady Mason wins the case. The eldest son naturally would have had to pay costs and his name would be quite damaged bringing two cases calling an aristocratic lady, his stepmother, a forger and a perjurer.

      However, since quite a few people now know that she is indeed a criminal she cedes the land to the rightful inheritor, her stepson, and then, with her son, goes abroad to live a life of ease and luxury, keeping both her money and her good name.

      Outrageous!

      But an excellent book, perhaps the best of Trollope's marvellous stories. I so enjoyed reading it and was so furious at the end my son said, 'What are you shouting at?'

      Recommended for classics fans and those who think they are deadly dull, all Dickens paid-for-by-the-word boring or sly romances like Austen. This is something else, a brilliant read.