Framley Parsonage

by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton (Editor), Peter Miles (Editor)

Overview

Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in influential circles, he agrees to guarantee a bill for a large sum of money for the disreputable local Member of Parliament, while being helped in his career in the Church by the same hand. But the unscrupulous politician reneges on his financial obligations, and Mark must face the consequences this debt may bring to his family. One of Trollope's most enduringly popular novels since it appeared in 1860, Framley Parsonage is an evocative depiction of country life in nineteenth-century England, told with great compassion and acute insight into human nature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141905020
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	09/27/1984
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	592
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	3 Months

About the Author

Anthony Trollope was born in London in 1815 and died in 1882. His father was a barrister who went bankrupt and his family was maintained by his mother, Frances, who was a well-known writer. Establishing himself with a career in the Post Office, Trollope's first novel was published in 1847. he went on to write over forty novels and enjoyed considerable acclaim during his lifetime. He is best known for The Barchester Chronicles and the brilliant Palliser novels.

David Skilton is Professor of English at Cardiff University. His books included Anthony Trollope and His Contemporaries and The Early and Mid-Victorian Novel. He has also edited Wilkie Collins's The Law and the Lady, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbevilles and Trollope's The Prime Minister for the Penguin Classics.

Peter Miles lectures at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He is author of "Wuthering Heights": The Critics Debate and co-author of Cinema, Literature and Society: Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain.

Table of Contents

	Introduction to the Modern Edition	9
I	'Omnes Omnia Bona Dicere'	13
II	The Framley Set, and the Chaldicotes Set	23
III	Chaldicotes	35
IV	A Matter of Conscience	49
V	Amantium Irae Amoris Integratio	59
VI	Mr Harold Smith's Lecture	74
VII	Sunday Morning	85
VIII	Gatherum Castle	94
IX	The Vicar's Return	112
X	Lucy Robarts	122
XI	Griselda Grantly	134
XII	The Little Bill	149
XIII	Delicate Hints	158
XIV	Mr Crawley of Hogglestock	170
XV	Lady Lufton's Ambassador	182
XVI	Mrs Podgens' Baby	192
XVII	Mrs Proudie's Conversazione	205
XVIII	The New Minister's Patronage	217
XIX	Money Dealings	227
XX	Harold Smith in Cabinet	241
XXI	Why Puck, the Pony, was beaten	251
XXII	Hogglestock Parsonage	261
XXIII	The Triumph of the Giants	269
XXIV	Magna est Veritas	282
XXV	Non-impulsive	296
XXVI	Impulsive	307
XXVII	South Audley Street	321
XXVIII	Dr Thorne	331
XXIX	Miss Dunstable at Home	340
XXX	The Grantly Triumph	360
XXXI	Salmon Fishing in Norway	366
XXXII	The Goat and Compasses	383
XXXIII	Consolation	392
XXXIV	Lady Lufton is taken by Surprise	401
XXXV	The Story of King Cophetua	412
XXXVI	Kidnapping at Hogglestock	424
XXXVII	Mr Sowerby without Company	436
XXXVIII	Is there Cause or Just Impediment?	446
XXXIX	How to write a Love Letter	458
XL	Internecine	470
XLI	Don Quixote	482
XLII	Touching Pitch	494
XLIII	Is she not Insignificant?	506
XLIV	The Philistines at the Parsonage	518
XLV	Palace Blessings	530
XLVI	Lady Lufton's Request	540
XLVII	Nemesis	554
XLVIII	How they were all Married, had Two Children, and lived Happily ever after	564