- Paperback: 592 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (18 Jun 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 019282855X
- ISBN-13: 978-0192828552
- Product Dimensions: 18.2 x 11.6 x 3.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 963,358 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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First published in serial form in the Graphic (1881-2), Marion Fay is half tragedy, half romantic burlesque, and at the same time is one of Trollope's most detailed scrutinies of the workings of the English class system. The novel contrasts two love affairs, each involving an aristocrat and a commoner. The subversive Lord Hampstead's plunge into middle-class society in his passionate pursuit of Marion Fay, a Quaker and daughter of a City clerk, is balanced by the testing of his radical friend George Roden, a clerk in the General Post Office, whose bizarre experiences among the aristocracy during his courtship of Hampstead's sister Lady Frances Trafford, are employed to satirize the concept of rank. Trollope vividly evokes the dull working lives, plain homes, blank streets, and limited horizons of the dwellers in Paradise Row, using them as an ironic choric commentary on the unattainable world of rank, wealth, and freedom, symbolized by life in the great country houses. This edition is based on the first three-volume edition of 1882. This book is intended for general readers, undergraduate and postgraduate students of English Literature, the nineteenth century novel, nineteenth century British history.
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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
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One of Trollope's best love stories, 13 Dec 2000
By Kristina Sigler - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Marion Fay (Selected Works of Anthony Trollope) (Hardcover)
It's quite strange that this book, of all Trollope, is so hard to find. Reviewers didn't like it when it was originally published in the late 1800s, and it never shook its reputation as ultra-tedious. This mystifies me. The melodrama between politically radical Lord Jack Hampton and Marion Fay, a non-aristocratic young Quaker woman who's more of a lady than several of the "ladies" in the book, is flirtatious, accessible and fun (Hampton repeatedly teases Marion that he fell for her when she "poked his fire," i.e. tended his fireplace with a poker--a bolder play with innuendo than Trollope usually engages in). It then turns passionate when Marion won't marry Jack because of a secret trouble involving life-threatening illness. T. uses the situation to examine with great depth and sensitivity the desire to consummate the spiritual union of two souls via marriage. This is the most careful look at what marriage means in T.'s ideal world that I have read in his work yet. He makes it exciting and suspenseful, since we're waiting to see if Marion will really get to poke Jack's fire--or if an unthinkable separation will occur. As in all T., there is a hilarious cast of characters who toe the line that separates the comically pathetic from the dangerously antisocial--for example, will Jack's archetypical evil stepmom just grumble her way through life, or will she scheme to kill Jack? The multiple marriage and family plots are very well integrated, unlike in some other T. novels.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Trollope's most romantic book, in my opinion, 27 Aug 2011
By Maggie Jarpey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Marion Fay (Paperback)
I agree with the other reviewer about this book in everything she said, and I will add that I found it the most romantic of Trollope's novels, with the hero having the deepest real love for the heroine that I have ever read anywhere. The subplots were good, and the character of Crocker was one of Trollope's most comical. The villains were satisfying bad, too.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Lovely, romantic novel, 27 Dec 2011
By Patricia Schroeder - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Marion Fay (Kindle Edition)
Lovely, romantic plot, particularly if you like British classics. I wanted to read one of Trollope's lesser known pieces and this was a good start. I would give it 5 stars except for one point - it is much too long. A third of the novel could easily be cut to make it more readable. But at the time it was a custom to do novels in three volumes so I assume he had to add a lot of fill. It is not that those sections are not interesting, but they don't develop the plot and the plot is so intriguing that I was quite impatient to push through to find out more. It gives a nice insight into the British class system of the period (19th century Victorian).I want to thank Amazon for making this available for FREE and to the other two reviewers whose reviews enticed me to try this one. I am very glad I did. I was actually tormented when at times I was busy and couldn't get to read it as I wanted to find out what was going to happen! So happy to have finished it and know how things turned out.
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