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Novel 119: Thomas Adolphus Trollope, Lindisfarn Chase (1864)

James Stark, Woody Landscape
James Stark, Woody Landscape

Two sisters, one raised by an English country squire, the other by a Parisian merchant, react differently to adversity.

Here is another novel by Anthony Trollope's brother, Frances Milton Trollope's son, and Frances Eleanor Trollope's husband.  After a  cumbersome exposition (the author seems to imagine you'll want to draw yourself an accurate map of his setting) Trollope gives us vivid characters and (if you don’t mind some Victorian over-scrupulosity) a good plot.

“The plot is well developed. . . .  The dialogue is spirited and vivacious.” New York Times, October 27, 1864

“The descriptive passages are admirably written, the characters are for the most part natural and animated, and the interest of the story is well sustained.”  London Review, November 12, 1864

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