Framley Parsonage

I'm grateful I've been reading Trollope's Barsetshire series in order because – although the central protagonists of this fourth book “Framley Parsonage” are new – there are a host of familiar characters in the background who are also integrally involved in some of the novel's side plots. Though I'm......more

Trollope starts slow, then goes slower and after a bit you wonder... where... exactly... is any of this... But then, almost without realizing it, you're deep into the often tedious lives of his characters. To this American (and probably most others), the types and concerns of these characters are pet......more

This is my 4th book that I have read of this series, and it took about 8 chapters for me to really get into it, but once I did, it was a super read. Trollope uses his early chapters to set forth all the characters in his books, and this time I felt he got a little carried away early. But this is a b......more

Il piacere di leggere Il IV romanzo del celebre ciclo del Barset continua a non deludere affatto. Anche qui lo stile è inconfondibilmente inglese tipico della miglior letteratura dell'Età vittoriana, sulla scia di quella gloriosa tradizione in cui il piacere di narrare pare il presupposto del piacer......more

Loved seeing the old characters coming back into things as well as some of the new characters. Overall, it was enjoyable, but this was the installment that I could most tell was originally written as a serial in terms of pacing and flow......more