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Lady De Courcy was a wise woman, and therefore, having treated Miss Thorne very badly by staying away till three o'clock, she assumed the offensive and attacked Mr Thorne's roads. Her daughter, not less wise, attacked Miss Thorne's early hours. The art of doing this is among the most precious of those usually cultivated by persons who know how to live.
There is no withstanding it. Who can go systematically to work and, having done battle with the primary accusation and settled that, then bring forward a countercharge and support that also? Life is not long enough for such labours. A man in the right relies easily on his rectitude and therefore goes about unarmed.
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His very strength is his weakness. A man in the wrong knows that he must look to his weapons; his very weakness is his strength. The one is never prepared for combat, the other is always ready. Therefore it is that in this world the man that is in the wrong almost invariably conquers the man that is in the right, and invariably despises him. View all 4 comments. Jan 29, Ailsa rated it really liked it Shelves: classic. Accompanied by his domineering wife and ambitious chaplain, they thoroughly upset the way things are done in the sleepy cathedral town. Old vs new. High church vs low. Battle lines are drawn and a power struggle between squabbling clergymen begins.
Less dry and more amusing than expected. Archdeacon Grantly is a "There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons. Archdeacon Grantly is a personal favourite. I say that a man is a fool to sacrifice his interests for such a bargain. A woman, too generally, has no other way of living. Jul 12, Ellie rated it it was amazing Shelves: kindle , fiction , trollope , indchallenge , classics , victorian-victoriana , british. Barchester Towers is the second volume in Anthony Trollope 's Barsetshire series, a series that follows the somewhat sedate adventures of clergyman and their wives in midth century England.
But,in fact, despite the distance of time and space, the characters and their interactions are not as far away as one might think! Harding was pushed out of his position as Warden in the previous volume called, not surprisingly, The Warden. The position is now available again but the new Bishop and Barchester Towers is the second volume in Anthony Trollope 's Barsetshire series, a series that follows the somewhat sedate adventures of clergyman and their wives in midth century England. The position is now available again but the new Bishop and his horrific wife Mrs.
Proudie are advocating that only young men should be given positions of responsibility sound familiar? Slope is Mrs. Proudie's ally but this may change if he can only grab more power. Harding's daughter, Eleanor, is a young widow with an income that unscrupulous or semi-unscrupulous men find irresistible. I found the leisurely pacing of this story soothing and the writing lovely. I enjoyed the orderly world and recognized all the emotions and political maneuverings as real as today's news. Greed, ambition, love, lust. Just cause the costumes are different, doesn't make the world unrecogniable!
I'm deciding between continuing with this series or rereading the Palliser novels which I loved when I last read them 30 years ago! Either way, I'm definitely want more Trollope in my life. View all 5 comments. Jul 24, Katie Lumsden rated it it was amazing Shelves: 5-stars. Everything a good book should be - witty, moving, beautiful and Victorian!
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Sep 22, Jane rated it really liked it. When I came back to it later, having not read any Trollope for quite some time and rather missing him, I was smitten. And I think that proves that even the greatest authors, even favourite novelists, need to be matched to your reading mood! The Archdeacon loves and respects his father, and he is also a pragmatic and practical man whose dearest wish is to succeed to the bishopric. He knows though that the government that would see him as the man for the job is on the point of collapse, and that the government likely to replace it would have rather different views.
Dr Proudie was the new bishop, and he brought with him his formidable wife, Mrs Proudie, and a social climbing, conniving chaplain named Obidiah Slope. I was particularly taken with Mrs Proudie, who ably managed not only her household but every single matter in the diocese that might affect her husband, much to the chagrin of the longer standing clergy. The new regime is completely at odds with the old guards, and so a civil war began between Grantlyite and Proudieite forces — and between high and low church.
That drew more characters into the story. Several members of clergy are called back to their religious duties in Barchester. Dr Stanhope has to return from the idyllic shores of Lake Como to take up his duties in his parish. Mr Arabin was called away from the ivory towers of academia by Dr Grantly, who was eager to draw more clergy who shared his views into the diocese.
I liked him, but it was a little too obvious what part he was going to play in the plot. There were so many wonderful moments, so many perfect details. I found so much to love though; more than enough — much more than enough — to say that I had a lovely time in this book and that I am looking forward to working my way through the rest of the Barsetshire novels.
The sofa rushed from its moorings and ran half-way into the middle of the room. Proudie was standing with Mr. Slope in front of the signora, and had been trying to be condescending and sociable; but she was not in the very best of tempers, for she found that, whenever she spoke to the lady, the lady replied by speaking to Mr.
Slope was a favourite, no doubt, but Mrs. Proudie had no idea of being less thought of than the chaplain. She was beginning to be stately, stiff, and offended, when unfortunately the castor of the sofa caught itself in her lace train, and carried away there is no saying how much of her garniture. Gathers were heard to go, stitches to crack, plaits to fly open, flounces were seen to fall, and breadths to expose themselves; a long ruin of rent lace disfigured the carpet, and still clung to the vile wheel on which the sofa moved.
So, when a granite battery is raised, excellent to the eyes of warfaring men, is its strength and symmetry admired. It is the work of years. Its neat embrasures, its finished parapets, its casemated stories show all the skill of modern science. But, anon, a small spark is applied to the treacherous fusee—a cloud of dust arises to the heavens—and then nothing is to be seen but dirt and dust and ugly fragments. We know what was the wrath of Juno when her beauty was despised. We know to what storms of passion even celestial minds can yield.
Proudie look on Ethelbert Stanhope when he pushed the leg of the sofa into her lace train. Slope had another. Into this latter Mr. Harding was shown and asked to sit down.
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Slope was not yet there. The ex-warden stood up at the window looking into the garden, and could not help thinking how very short a time had passed since the whole of that house had been open to him, as though he had been a child of the family, born and bred in it. A tear came into each eye as he reflected that all this was gone. What use would the hospital be to him now? He was alone in the world, and getting old; he would soon, very soon have to go and leave it all, as his dear old friend had gone; go, and leave the hospital, and his accustomed place in the cathedral, and his haunts and pleasures, to younger and perhaps wiser men.
That chanting of his! Perhaps, in truth, the time for it was gone by. He felt as though the world were sinking from his feet; as though this, this was the time for him to turn with confidence to those hopes which he had preached with confidence to others.
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Shelves: victorians , classics , audio-avail-ill , library-request , on-dj , hoopla , bricks , owned , on-laptop , Loved it! I picked this up at my lunch break and couldn't put it down until I finished. I wish I could explain what a great author Anthony Trollope is. I am a Dickens and Austen fan, but always assumed Trollope was just a little bit stuffy and a drag to read.
I'm very glad to be wrong!
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Trollope has a great sense of humor and will even throw unexpected spoilers quite early on in the book. But his characters are so real and full of depth that even if you know the heroine doesn't marry 4. But his characters are so real and full of depth that even if you know the heroine doesn't marry person XYZ because Trollope flat out told you so, you still must read, read, read to find out the whys and the wherefores. I want to thank Katie Lumsden of Books and Things at YouTube, whose moving review of the fifth book in this series grabbed me so much that I decided I just had to read it.