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Title: The American Senator (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope, John Halperin ISBN: 0-19-283714-1 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good but sometimes tedious
Comment: The American Senator of the title is a stuffy, boring old man who wants to understand English politics and morality but also wants to impose his own morality upon the English. Sadly, the book could have been far more exciting without this character. On the other hand, the characters remaining are interesting enough. This book is mainly about love, or about the pursuit of love or fortune. The scheming and penniless Arabella Trefoil is engaged to a man who we quickly see is far too good for her, and what he sees in her beyond her remote beauty is a big question that is never quite resolved. However, wanting a fortune, she maintains her engagement in private while denying it in public, thus finding herself able to pursue the local squire, Lord Rufford, who is also taken with her beauty but on advice of friends, becomes reluctant to truly woo Arabella. Social interactions between all these parties, including their antecedents, are quite interesting and fill a good portion of the book. On the other hand, another love affair of lesser merit but far more honesty is that of Mary Masters and Reginald Morton, a romance against the Masters' family wishes who pressure both her and the unfortunate Larry Twentyman to make a match. Intrigues from minor characters, plots and subplots, though rather too much mention and detail of fox hunting, still this is a fun read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent introduction to Trollope
Comment: I've read several books by Trollope and enjoyed this one very much. It includes most of the standard Trollope elements: two people who are in love with each other, but too shy to say so; a fortune-hunting woman and the men she's after; members of the clergy; a bit of Parliament; family life in England in the 1870s; fox hunting; and satire of life in both England and the United States. The characters are extremely well drawn. Although the writing is "old fashioned," the emotions and situations are up-to-date. There is humor, pathos and excellent description.
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Title: The Claverings (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton ISBN: 0192837079 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Lady Anna (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Orgel ISBN: 0192837184 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Orley Farm (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton ISBN: 0192838563 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: He Knew He Was Right (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope, Frank Kermode, John Sutherland ISBN: 0140433910 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Rachel Ray (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope, P. D. Edwards ISBN: 0192837389 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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