- Paperback: 654 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (1 Sep 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192828177
- ISBN-13: 978-0192828170
- Product Dimensions: 18.4 x 11.8 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 496,890 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A novel of a man accused of and standing trial for bigamy on the testimony of his former mistress. The story contains Australian gold-mining scenes, the prominence given to matters of law and a criminal trial, and the stronger than usual attack on religious fanatacism.
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As young adult, Trollope endured seven years of poverty in the General Post Office in London before accepting a better - paying position as postal surveyor in Banagher, Ireland in 1841. The years in Ireland formed the basis of his second career delineating clerical life in small cathedral towns.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is not one of Trollope's famous novels but it is a delight and I am surprised it is not better known. The shipboard and Australian sequences are fascinating, the narrative is gripping and it contains great set pieces and vivid Trollopian characters.
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I am slowly making my way down the list of all Trollope's novels. This is a long one but one full of fascinating detail including life in Australia during the gold rush, the workings of the Post Office, and the shortcomings of the legal system in the 1870s.
I have given it 4/5 as the re-caps of what had gone before annoyed me even though I am aware that the novel was serialised and therefore Trollope was using the re-cap for the benefit of readers who were new to the story.
I have given it 4/5 as the re-caps of what had gone before annoyed me even though I am aware that the novel was serialised and therefore Trollope was using the re-cap for the benefit of readers who were new to the story.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Pretty good book
22 Sep 2003
Format:Hardcover
John Caldigate is a somewhat weak-willed man where women are concerned, as well as where gambling occurs, so he has managed to bankrupt himself as well as get himself "engaged" to several women through the course of the book, all because he can't say No when he should. Women cause him the greater trouble, but when he eventually returns home to England as a wealthy man (hard work was what made him so) and marries the woman he truly loves, his greatest troubles are now with business associates from his past and his wife's relations. What poses a disaster for himself and his wife (mother of his infant son) is a relationship he had with a "fast" woman, an actress, while he was making his fortune in Australia. She shows up in England, wanting money, and claims that she is actually John's wife. Thus John's marriage is bigamous, his son illegitmate, and his wife downfallen. The extent to which her family interferes, even to kidnapping the wife, is outrageous and dramatic. In fact, most of this book is high drama. It is very entertaining, and it resolves itself nicely, although all John's former "fiancees" do spend much time being thankful that they never married him. There is humor here, and there is tension. A very good read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Good but not worthy of a rereading
2 April 2010
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Some of Trollope's books I eagerly look forward to rereading--it will be fun to read again about the outrageous Mrs. Proudie, for example, and about the slow realization of Ayala that the homely man with the great character and personality is in truth her "angel of light." But once is enough for me for John Caldigate, although I did enjoy it and do recommend it to Trollope fans. Being born in Australia myself, I was especially interested in the parts about gold mining there, and a friend of mine who is intrigued by gold mining and panning loved reading a description of that. Near the end I was obsessed with discovering how the trial came out and couldn't put the book (or, rather, my Kindle) down. The British justice system was thoroughly dealt with and was interesting. The chilling and eerily realistic portrait of Hester Bolton's mother, a puritanical religious fanatic, was fascinating to me. But it wouldn't be fun to read again about her!
For lovers of Antony Trollope, mostly
24 Mar 2012
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John Caldigate offers the devoted reader the company of that humane conservative, Antony Trollope. The plot concerns the consequences of misconduct that may or may not have been perpetrated in the far-away goldfields of Australia. Trollope had been there and observed all with a keen eye. As usual, he is good on the situation of a young man who has to learn to live in a world of moral ambiguities.
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