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by Anthony Trollope (Author)
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  • Paperback: 516 pages
  • Publisher: BiblioBazaar, LLC (28 Jan 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1103138014
  • ISBN-13: 978-1103138012
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 3 cm
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must for Trollope fans ..., 18 Jan 2010
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... not because it is the best of his work - it is not, for reasons which I'll come to in a minute. But it is in many ways autobiographical, and in those sections rather more revelatory and intimate than his autobiography.
The autobiographical side lies in the person of Charley Tudor - a likeable young man who, when the novel commences, is still very much in what Trollope terms elsewhere the "hobbledehoy" phase of life. Charley has got into a bad public office where he has many temptations to behave in an undesirable way - and he falls into those temptations with a will. We see him through a fliration with a barmaid, via which he is nearly entrapped into marriage (shades of John Eames and Amelia Roper), and (unlike the worthy John) falling into considerable debt and familiarity with a thoroughly unattractive moneylender. This aspect too, rings very true (wonderful description of the way in which this vulture toys with his prey in small ways, which could only come from life!), and one sees what might have become of AT, but for his talent for fiction. This, too is Charley Tudor's salvation, and he ends the book like AT, prosperously married, a successful novelist and doing well in a more respectable public office.
Autobiographical also (with a twist) is Katie Woodward - a facsimilie of Trollope's beloved sister; but here AT indulges in wish-fulfillment and allows Katie to live and thrive where his sister died. However the passages by her sickbed, when she is convinced that she is dying, resonate with the love and grief which Trollope felt as he watched beside his sister's bed.
Also very worth study is the story of Alaric Tudor, a very modern hero in some ways: a man of more style than substance, eschewing the finer points of morality for career success, and leveraging up to a point where one false step can only bring him down.
The weak points - Alaric is really not very likeable, and nor is his wife Gertrude (for all her family praise her at the end, she seems to me to take "My husband right or wrong" too far) and the third couple, Harry and Linda, are little more than makeweight characters. There is way, way too much of two of AT's pet subjects - the proper running of the civil service, and parliamentary affairs (here a profoundly tedious parliamentary enquiry). The in-jokes about authorship are also a little de trop.
But the strength of its good bits far outweight the inconveniences of the bad - there are passages and themes in the book that return to one again and again.
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