• Novels

    Last Chronicle of Barset

    If I’d known Trollope’s Last Chronicle of Barset was 900 pages long, I might have been daunted. Reading it on the Kindle, none of the sheer massiveness of the physical book tempted me…

  • Novels

    The Small House at Allington

    The Small House at Allington is fifth of Anthony Trollope’s six Barchester novels. The setting and most of the main characters are new, though familiar characters from the other novels come into the…

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    Dr. Thorne

    Dr. Thorne is the novel that precedes Framley Parsonage in Trollope’s chronicles of Barsetshire. I read Framley first, and though I wish I’d gotten to know Dr. Thorne beforehand, he didn’t suffer any…

  • Novels

    Framley Parsonage

    It’s been awhile since I ventured into the 19th century with Anthony Trollope. I’ve read The Warden and Barchester Towers, and I thought Framley Parsonage came next. Turns out I was wrong; I…

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    The Way We Live Now

    I started reading Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now last spring. Sherry of Semicolon had mentioned when she got her Kindle for Christmas that this was one of the free books she…