#barchestertowers

If I manage to stay sane over the next couple of years, it will be at least 60% due to Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Anthony Trollope at the end of the day. #anthonytrollope #barchestertowers #barsetshirechronicles #currentlyreading #benandjerrys #gradschool #bookstagram

«‘Never mind love. After all, what is it? The dream of a few weeks. That is all its joy. The disappointment of a life is its Nemesis. Who was ever successful in true love? Success in love argues that the love is false. True love is always despondent or tragical.’ . . . ‘There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.’» (Volume Two, Chapter VIII: A Love Scene) ~ «Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for a change we sink to something lower.» (Vol. Three, Chapter IX: Mr. and Mrs. Quiverful Are Made Happy...) ~ #Finished: #BarchesterTowers by #AnthonyTrollope Rating: 10/10 ~ • The topic of this #novel may not be for everyone, but honestly I couldn't find anything I did not like in it, unlike its prequel The Warden. Power plays, manoeuvres, strategies of the clerical community in and around #Barchester were delightful to read for me. • Pride, vanity, ambition, greed, avarice, and, most significantly, hypocrisy in religiosty are all presented with delightful satire in the novel, which is also a strikingly witty criticism of those who use religion for their own purposes and the clergymen ambitious for worldly positions. There are various wooings for selfish ends, as well as true love, which hold an important place among all that happens. • I never wanted it to end. Trollope's narrative was so lively that all the time I felt as if I was living in the questionably humble town of Barchester and the characters were real. The characters, most of whom are unsymphatetic yet highly interesting and memorable, like Mr. Slope, Signora Neroni (who has become my favourite anti-villain), Mrs. Proudie, the Thorne siblings, Mr. Arabin, are what really made me love the novel. It is no surprise why this novel's popularity outlived almost all other Trollope novels. ~ «‘It is so easy to condemn—and so pleasant too, for eulogy charms no listeners as detraction does.’» (Vol. Two, Chapter II: St. Ewold's Parsonage) ~ In some editions, like mine, chapters are grouped in three volumes and numbers are different. ~ #Trollope #BarsetshireChronicles #MrSlope #MrsProudie #DrProudie #SignoraNeroni #book #books #bookstagram #literature https://www.instagram.com/p/B5UmsEEAtAtvRFFA4lpLU3Zx39Mh0yZVgQJiRE0/?igshid=pnwnzw9yp5t7

«‘Some men have a great gift of making money, but they can't spend it. Others can't put two shillings together, but they have a great talent for all sorts of outlay. I begin to think that my genius is wholly in the latter line.’» (Chapter XV: The Widow's Suitors) ~ «‘... I may question the infallibility of the teachers, but I hope that I shall not therefore be accused of doubt as to the thing to be taught.’» (Chapter VI: War) ~ #CurrentlyReading: #BarchesterTowers by #AnthonyTrollope. I knew that I shouldn't have judged a writer's talent with only one book and this book has been proving it. The second part in Chronicles of Barshetshire shows that #Trollope improved his writing skills contrasted with the prequel, proving that he was a great observer of human behaviour, a true genius and satirist despite having been overshadowed by his contemporaries. It seems to me now that The Warden, short as it also is, was just a small portion of what Trollope could show, kind of a prologue to his series, an uneventful trailer for the masterpiece upcoming. Though not fast-paced, Barchester Towers is engaging, and I have been truly enjoying it. It is about intrigues and power struggles in the clerical domain of Barchester, deals with the clerical issues with a more panoramic scope, also non-tediously touching upon politics. Moreover, Trollope gave a depth to the characters from the prequel, while presenting many new, morally questionable yet highly interesting and striking characters in this one, such as the sneaky Mr. Slope, the hen-pecked Dr. Proudie, Mrs. Proudie and the unforgettable Stanhope family with the married daughter Madeline Neroni. ~ «A man is nothing now unless he has within him a full appreciation of the new era, an era in which it would seem that neither honesty nor truth is very desirable, but in which success is the only touchstone of merit...» (Chapter XIII: The Rubbish Cart) ~ #Barchester #ChroniclesOfBarsetshire #MrSlope #MrsProudie #DrProudie #ArchdeaconGrantly #SignoraMadelineNeroni #MadelineNeroni #EleanorBold #BertieStanhope #englishnovel #victoriannovel #book #books #bookstagram #literature #bibliophile #novel #currentread #reading #read #classics https://www.instagram.com/p/B45Hs1ygkMG/?igshid=1e0iig32bn8vw

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