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As I remember it, when I read the Trollope Parliamentary novels in college, I thought this was the weak one, and I don’t see any reason to change my mind. Lizzie Eustace is an example of a character who is on the surface normal, but ends up being self-destructive. But she’s not anything like as [...]

Watched the BBC adaptation, so downloaded the gutenberg edition. It’s ok, but I think I’ll read more George Elliot before going on another Trollope binge. I read Daniel Deronda after seeing the movie of that, and it was more interesting. Update, March 24, 2005: I changed my mind. Trollope is really brilliant in his own [...]

I’m rereading Trollope’s Parliamentary novels, which I read and liked in college and may have reread some when the Masterpiece Theater version starring Susan Hampshire was coming out in the 80′s, but I certainly haven’t looked at them since. I really think Trollope is underrated as a characterizer of bizarre people who manage to look [...]