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Framley Parsonage: A Barsetshire Novel of Clerical Ambition, Love, and Victorian Society
Hardcover
RomanceClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515434665
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.79
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire, a richly comic and morally observant story of clerical ambition, debt, patronage, courtship, and social pressure. The Reverend Mark Robarts, vicar of Framley, is comfortable, well-connected, and dangerously susceptible to the glamour of political and aristocratic society. When he allows himself to be drawn into financial obligations by the unscrupulous Nathaniel Sowerby, his good fortune begins to fray, while his sister Lucy's attachment to Lord Lufton raises questions of rank, family expectation, and independence.
First published serially in Cornhill Magazine in 1860-1861 and in book form in 1861, Framley Parsonage deepens Trollope's Barsetshire world by bringing together the church, Parliament, landed society, marriage politics, and the daily negotiations of reputation. Trollope himself described the book as thoroughly English, with much Church, but more love-making, a fair description of its balance: social comedy, moral realism, and humane attention to weakness rather than melodrama. For readers of Victorian fiction, English social novels, clerical fiction, classic literary realism, and the Barsetshire series, this is one of Trollope's most approachable and rewarding works.
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