Journal Entry 1 by bluenoser from Eymet, Aquitaine France on Thursday, August 26, 2010

I was hanging around the English bookstall at the market this morning, waiting while my daughter tried on some clothes and what did I spy but 3 books I just HAD to buy. This is one of them.

* note to self: must not get within 50 ft of second hand books until the TBR pile is lower! * 

Journal Entry 2 by bluenoser at Eymet, Aquitaine France on Tuesday, June 21, 2011

This is a long book, even for Trollope, being nearly 600 pages of tightly packed smallish print! It's called a '''pocket classic', but you'd need a pretty big pocket for this.
It's fairly obvious that Trollope did some travelling abroad and felt compelled to include his 'travelogue' in this book - interesting but does lengthen the story.
It's a bittersweet tale of greed, romance and family squabbles. It gives a troubling picture of how dependent Victorian women were on their men folk, Trollope kept referring to them as being their husbands' possessions...aaagh! But I do love his writing.

 

Journal Entry 3 by bluenoser at Eymet, Aquitaine France on Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Released 11 mos ago (6/22/2011 UTC) at Eymet, Aquitaine France

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This is promised to Nu-Knees, so tomorrow morning it will start its journey with two others in a Canadian whiskey box. 

Journal Entry 4 by Nu-Knees at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Friday, July 01, 2011

For the past year or so our postman has been coming at all sorts of different times throughout the morning - but I think this is the first time I've had a van driver knock on the door at 7.30 pm to deliver a parcel of books! Thank you very much, bluenoser, for a varied and interesting-looking collection of reading matter! Although Anthony Trollope is one of my favourite Victorian authors, I don't know this novel so am delighted to add it to my Classics reading pile. Thank you :-) 

Journal Entry 5 by Nu-Knees at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, January 12, 2012

At the heart of this early Trollope are two or three love stories whose courses don't run smooth .... I was tempted to call it a Victorian romance, as he seems to adopt a rather romantic writing style, especially for the dialogue, but that might promise a degree of happy-ever-after that isn't exactly fulfilled ....
Thanks again, bluenoser. I thoroughly enjoyed it and have now squirrelled it away on my classics keeper shelves, thank you very much!