Framley Parsonage, Anthony Trollope
Framley Parsonage, Anthony Trollope
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Framley Parsonage

Author: Anthony Trollope

Narrator: David Shaw-Parker

Unabridged: 21 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 01/02/2015

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

In Framley Parsonage, the fourth novel of Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire, the author leaves the confines of Barchester and looks to the countryside, where he relates the moral difficulties of Mark Robarts, the young clergyman who has recently been appointed Vicar of Framley Parsonage. Desperate to keep up with the local aristocracy, the country parson is persuaded to underwrite the debts of Sowerby, a well-respected peer. However, when the debts are called in, Robarts finds himself in a serious predicament. Written with acute insight, together with a great deal of warmth and humour towards his characters’ attendant charms and foibles, Framley Parsonage is sure to delight.

About Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was one of the most successful English novelists during the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, but he also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues as well as other topical matters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric on January 30, 2022

I'm grateful I've been reading Trollope's Barsetshire series in order because – although the central protagonists of this fourth book “Framley Parsonage” are new – there are a host of familiar characters in the background who are also integrally involved in some of the novel's side plots. Though I'm......more

Goodreads review by Derek on July 05, 2011

Trollope starts slow, then goes slower and after a bit you wonder... where... exactly... is any of this... But then, almost without realizing it, you're deep into the often tedious lives of his characters. To this American (and probably most others), the types and concerns of these characters are pet......more

Goodreads review by Blaine on May 19, 2020

This is my 4th book that I have read of this series, and it took about 8 chapters for me to really get into it, but once I did, it was a super read. Trollope uses his early chapters to set forth all the characters in his books, and this time I felt he got a little carried away early. But this is a b......more

Goodreads review by Emilio on October 13, 2020

Il piacere di leggere Il IV romanzo del celebre ciclo del Barset continua a non deludere affatto. Anche qui lo stile è inconfondibilmente inglese tipico della miglior letteratura dell'Età vittoriana, sulla scia di quella gloriosa tradizione in cui il piacere di narrare pare il presupposto del piacer......more

Goodreads review by Mara on October 10, 2023

Loved seeing the old characters coming back into things as well as some of the new characters. Overall, it was enjoyable, but this was the installment that I could most tell was originally written as a serial in terms of pacing and flow......more