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A review by danabsolon
Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
5.0
Loved this.
Some themes:
- attachment bonds (e.g. between parents and children, between romantic partners), ways they can go wrong and right
- shame (the feeling that the 'world is over' for you, due to perceived unworthiness regarding a personal failure or shortcoming), reckoning with/redemption from
- financial pressure, making one's way in the world
- punishment and forgiveness
- institutions and professions (particularly around law in this case)
- idealism vs. pragmatism: when is striving for better desirable and when would doing so be too much to the world's, or our own, detriment?
- integrity: what is it to do an honest job?
- meeting life's vicissitudes
- small joys, e.g. food, drink, sport, beauty of various landscapes, moments of companionship
Note: Although Trollope may stick up against anti-Jewish prejudice in other works, we are all - including Trollope - flawed: I feel antisemitic language/tropes do arise in the novel. Far from ideal but I put this done to the time period and it didn't greatly detract from my enjoyment of the novel as a whole
Some themes:
- attachment bonds (e.g. between parents and children, between romantic partners), ways they can go wrong and right
- shame (the feeling that the 'world is over' for you, due to perceived unworthiness regarding a personal failure or shortcoming), reckoning with/redemption from
- financial pressure, making one's way in the world
- punishment and forgiveness
- institutions and professions (particularly around law in this case)
- idealism vs. pragmatism: when is striving for better desirable and when would doing so be too much to the world's, or our own, detriment?
- integrity: what is it to do an honest job?
- meeting life's vicissitudes
- small joys, e.g. food, drink, sport, beauty of various landscapes, moments of companionship
Note: Although Trollope may stick up against anti-Jewish prejudice in other works, we are all - including Trollope - flawed: I feel antisemitic language/tropes do arise in the novel. Far from ideal but I put this done to the time period and it didn't greatly detract from my enjoyment of the novel as a whole