Trollope Anthony - Orley Farm - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: There was a power of endurance about her and a courage that was almost awful. Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery and the anguish and guilt of Lady Mason. Surrounding this enigmatic woman and her apparent crime are her elderly lover Sir Peregrine Orme; her principled but thoughtless son Lucius; and not least a group of determined lawyers. Orley Farm contains the plot with which Trollope was most pleased. Drawing on family experience of the loss of an inheritance the novel tackles the tremendous question of property fraud. The result as George Orwell observed is one of the most brilliant novels about a law suit in English fiction. Orley Farm dates from a confident period of its author's life. It breathes an air of writerly assurance with Trollope at the height of his competitiveness with Dickens. In this work Trollope claims the Victorian legal novel as his own.
Title: Orley Farm
Author(s): Trollope Anthony, O'gorman, Francis (Saintsbury Professor Of English Literature, University Of Edinburgh)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198803744
Pages: 752 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/2018
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Classic Fiction