Rachel Ray Anthony Trollope 9781542458948 Books
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Anthony Trollope was one of the great English writers of the famous Victorian era. Trollope was prolific and his books often centered around the important political, social, and gender issues of his time. Trollope wrote the classic Chronicles of Barsetshire novels as well as The Way We Live Now, a satirical novel that is often ranked as one of the finest in Victorian era literature. Rachel Ray is a novel that tells the story of a young woman who is forced to end her engagement due to bad rumors surrounding her fiance by members of her community.
Rachel Ray Anthony Trollope 9781542458948 Books
One must make allowences for the occasional sloppiness of Trollope's writing, given the serialized format and the incredible number of novels he wrote while working full-time for the post office. He always has something important to say and usually says it well. This novel is one of his shortest and one of his best. Like George Elliot and Charles Dickens, Trollope was dragged kicking and screaming into industrialized England in the 19th century. And, like them, he saw beneath the glitz and glamor of new-found wealth and the breakdown in social classes that followed the Reform movement in England. He seems at times to be overly preoccupied with the demise of the "lady" and the "gentleman," but this concern reveals a well-founded alarm over the vanishing of such Victorian values as "nobility" and "duty to others." In this novel he expresses many of those concerns while targetting the Evangelicals, an attack that is right-on and timely indeed. He reveals the hypocrisy of so many of those who are filled with resentment and hatred of their fellow humans while professing to bask in the love of Christ.I would rate this novel, alongside The Warden, as first-rate and excellent ways to come to Anthony Trollope, who is, in my view, a vastly under-rated writer, despite his flaws.
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Rachel Ray Anthony Trollope 9781542458948 Books Reviews
I was delighted with the condition and enjoyed the book. As with all of Anthony Trollope novels, it leaves you wanting more.
Not Trollope at his best. Certainly not a new plot...worthy girl finds worldly wealth and happiness in man who works to deserve her. That said, it is a well crafted tale and the aunt , who camouflages her soreness with piety seems to be a take off on Mrs Bishop Proudie. She is just as transparent and as much fun to laugh at. She is also as distressing. If you're a fan of Trollope, you will be well repaid for the time spent.
Nice story
Oh what a writer he is! Wow! Step by step, like a tortoise, lumbering along, and the reader is fascinated...no matter that we all know what will happen...the HEA is coming, as always...after a series of tribulations, which will make almost everyone a better, more humble, person, the happiness of the perfect marriage will be reached...one wonders a bit about T's own marriage....? And what went wrong when he was young? A broken promise? Did his lover die? Oh well, good story well written!
Satirical look at the provincial and small minded Weltanschauung of Low Church parishes in the West Country. The idea is that their religiosity and prudishness makes men pompous and women insipid as they actively strive to prevent one another's happiness in the name of propriety. This mindset keeps the characters ignorant rubes, even as strive to rise in the world. Interesting and occasionally very funny, though the cosmopolitan Trollope's justifiable hostility to this milieu means that once his point becomes clear, it is difficult to care much about the characters or their fates.
Rachel Ray is the twenty-fourth novel by Anthony Trollope that I have read. Trollope is one of my favorite authors; I am rarely disappointed by his books. That said, Rachel Ray was a disappointment to me.
The story is typical Trollope; that is, young girl falls in love with eligible young man and almost immediately serious problems are encountered. Of the twenty-four novels I have read, perhaps half or more have this common theme. More often than not, such as with an Eye for an Eye, the frustrated love affair propels the story forward to a dramatic and satisfying conclusion. Not so with Rachel Ray.
Early in the novel Rachel falls in love with a handsome young man, Luke Rowan, who is getting ready to become a partner in a brewery in Devonshire county. Luke proposes marriage to Rachel and she accepts. All this takes place early in the story and it appears, at least momentarily, as if all is well. But then a variety of advisors suggest to Rachel's weak and confused mother that the match with Luke is ill advised. Unfortunately for Rachel, by this time Luke has gone to London on business and can't come to discuss the problem with her. Rachel is required to write a letter to Luke calling off the engagement, which she does.
Up to this point I was moderately engaged in the novel. Sadly, a couple of hundred pages of tedious plot development are needed before we finally arrive at a resolution to this lackluster story. Additionally, the whole novel is predictable and often boring. Some reviewers maintain that Trollope was attempting to belittle the various Christian sects that talk about brotherly love while practicing hate and scorn for others. Certainly, this is an important part of the novel, particularly as it relates to Rachel's sister Dorothea, who is a young widow who does all in her power to ruin Rachel's life under the guise of Christian good will and love for Rachel. Certainly Rachel's arguments with her sister add some dramatic tension to the novel, but eventually this opposition to Rachel's happiness under the guise of proper Christian guidance becomes tiresome.
At his best, Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux, two Palliser novels, Trollope bring his readers into his story and fully engages them with his cast of characters. So much so that the reader actually feels a part of the ongoing story and wants to engage in dialogue with the various characters. Often at the end of the evening when I was ready to put the book aside, I found myself continuing to think about the characters and how I might advise them with their problems. Additionally, Trollope often talks directly to his readers and bring us in as a confidant to his thinking about various situations and how they might be resolved or larger philosophical issues that present themselves in the ongoing story. At his best, Trollope is a great writer and a reader's best friend. Sadly, many of Trollope's best characteristics as a novelist are missing in Rachel Ray, a somewhat tiresome story that goes on too long and ends predictably.
Wish it was as pictured. Pages also yellow from aging.
One must make allowences for the occasional sloppiness of Trollope's writing, given the serialized format and the incredible number of novels he wrote while working full-time for the post office. He always has something important to say and usually says it well. This novel is one of his shortest and one of his best. Like George Elliot and Charles Dickens, Trollope was dragged kicking and screaming into industrialized England in the 19th century. And, like them, he saw beneath the glitz and glamor of new-found wealth and the breakdown in social classes that followed the Reform movement in England. He seems at times to be overly preoccupied with the demise of the "lady" and the "gentleman," but this concern reveals a well-founded alarm over the vanishing of such Victorian values as "nobility" and "duty to others." In this novel he expresses many of those concerns while targetting the Evangelicals, an attack that is right-on and timely indeed. He reveals the hypocrisy of so many of those who are filled with resentment and hatred of their fellow humans while professing to bask in the love of Christ.
I would rate this novel, alongside The Warden, as first-rate and excellent ways to come to Anthony Trollope, who is, in my view, a vastly under-rated writer, despite his flaws.
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