The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Anthony Trollope (Author)

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Publication Date: December 2000

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About the Author

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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0783891660
• ISBN-13: 978-0783891668
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,002,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fails more than it succeeds, June 20, 2008

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This review is from: The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson, by One of the Firm (Trollope, Penguin) (Mass Market Paperback)

With few readers for Anthony Trollope's greatest novels, it doesn't seem worth a lot of trouble to steer a potential customer away from what is surely his slightest book. But I'll take a moment to do so. Trollope is hardly ever uninteresting; he is a master of creating unique and formidable characters and letting them bang into each other and documenting the results. But this book is indeed a struggle. Possibly the satire is too much of its time, though I doubt it. Even if that were the case though, the mostly whiny and boring one-dimensional characers who inhabit this book are almost without any interest. Satire needs to be a bit over the top; this is tame and plodding stuff.

It is often said that lesser novels make better movies. The nuance, the vastness, the gentle description and evocative detail are often lost in the transfer to film. Masterpiece Theater has filmed a couple of Trollope's finer tales. After the long-ago and far-away 27 episode panoply devoted to the Pallisers, they've scrimped in length and offered pallid versions of great books. Maybe this novel, which, despite its flaws has a some vivid scenes and interesting bits, could, with skillful crafting, make a pleasant TV series. It sure didn't make a good read.