This story deals with the imperfect workings of the legal system in the trial and acquittal of Lady Mason. Trollope wrote in his Autobiography that his friends considered this "the best I have written".
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'Brilliantly choreographed legal thriller'.- Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday, 1.8.99
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Anthony Trollope (1815-82) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire, but he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.
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Trollope at his best!,
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Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English language. Trollope's people are real; the beleaguered Lady Mason, charged with forging a will; the aged lover Sir Peregrine Orme; Madeleine Stavely, deeply but practically in love; the shallow, fickle Sophia Furnival and others are 3-dimensional figures that live and breathe. His satire of the so-called "justice" system is the best kind of satire: he just describes the court proceedings as they really are. The result is as up-to-date as today's newspaper. It is no wonder that Trollope's revival in popularity is continuing to grow.
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An elegant, subtle undermining of the legal system.,
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This review is from: Orley Farm (World's Classics) (Paperback)
Orley Farm is Trollope at his most profound, and his most entertaining. It is difficult to ascertain what is best in this novel: the subtle, incisive examination of how legal systems cannot be impartial and, more fundamentally, how humankind looks after its own regardless of right and wrong; or the episodic journey with some of Trollope's most memorable (and always three dimensional) characters - the 'wrong' but completely empathic Lady Mason, the fiercely honourable Sir Peregrine Orme, the virile young Peregrine Orme and, most memorably, the gentle overwhelmed but staunchly loyal Mrs Orme - undergoing the pangs of Trollope's drama amidst ancient piles, undulating hedgerows and sequestered English fields.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Deja Vu All Over Again,
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This review is from: Orley Farm (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
Orley is simply timeless. Just as in the Palliser series, the characters are the people all around you, in the office, in the news, and on the tube. Trollope's ability to understand the subtle differences that shape the mind of men and women is simply uncanny. If you are a truth seeker, this is a book for you. Anyone with exposure to a legal system with its basis in the English common law will understand the perceptive analysis it is subjected to in Orley Farm. The distinction between evil deeds and the often sympathetic humans that are their authors is one that modern American culture often forgets to make. Orley Farm is here to remind us. As a trusts and estates lawyer, I can not believe that I practiced for fifteen years before someone told me about this gem.
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IT is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
metallic furniture, assize week, commercial gentlemen, partnership deed, commercial room, double ditch, former trial, two deeds, such tidings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Mason, Sir Peregrine, Orley Farm, Lady Staveley, The Cleeve, Felix Graham, Peregrine Orme, Miss Furnival, Lucius Mason, Mary Snow, Sir Joseph, Groby Park, Miss Biggs, Miss Staveley, Bridget Bolster, Harley Street, Martha Biggs, Augustus Staveley, Madeline Staveley, Mason of Groby, Sophia Furnival, Sir Richard, Bedford Row, Lord Alston, Solomon Aram New!
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IT is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
metallic furniture, assize week, commercial gentlemen, partnership deed, commercial room, double ditch, former trial, two deeds, such tidings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Mason, Sir Peregrine, Orley Farm, Lady Staveley, The Cleeve, Felix Graham, Peregrine Orme, Miss Furnival, Lucius Mason, Mary Snow, Sir Joseph, Groby Park, Miss Biggs, Miss Staveley, Bridget Bolster, Harley Street, Martha Biggs, Augustus Staveley, Madeline Staveley, Mason of Groby, Sophia Furnival, Sir Richard, Bedford Row, Lord Alston, Solomon Aram New!
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- Framley Parsonage (Penguin English Library) by Anthony Trollope on 5 pages
- Doctor Thorne (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Anthony Trollope (Profiles in Literature) by P.D. Edwards in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Anthony Trollope and His Contemporaries: A Study in the Theory and Convention of the Mid-Victorian Novel by David Skilton in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Woman in White (Bantam Classics) by Wilkie Collins in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature by Kieran Dolin on 23 pages
- The Amenities of Book Collecting and Kindred Affections by A. Edward Newton on 4 pages
- The Amenities of Book Collecting And Kindred Affections by Edward A. Newton on 4 pages
- The Claverings (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope on 4 pages
- Medical Women and Victorian Fiction by Kristine Swenson on page 58, page 60, and Back Matter
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