tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post1199949519684051433..comments2024-02-05T09:17:53.322-08:00Comments on Adrian Barlow's blog: Anthony Trollope’s own goalsAdrian Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526714501872493961noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-41990776463914973472016-10-26T05:59:23.053-07:002016-10-26T05:59:23.053-07:00A very welcome return to blogging, Adrian, and mor...A very welcome return to blogging, Adrian, and more importantly to insightful and erudite analysis. It has been much missed!<br />So Trollope was, perhaps, his most vocal critic? I enjoyed "The Way We Live Now", the themes of which echo down the years. I found out that this was one of his more favoured novels, in as much as he said: "Upon the whole I by no means look upon the book as one of my failures."<br />Incidentally, my daughter has been presented with the description of English Literature at A Level as covering "Victorians, Mad Women and Faeries".....Anilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07297710417543760428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-84881695527449437182016-10-25T13:52:46.216-07:002016-10-25T13:52:46.216-07:00Thank you, Tom, and you are quite right about the ...Thank you, Tom, and you are quite right about the London chapters of the Warden. Trollope's account of Mr Harding's first experience of eating in a Chop House, and then of finding himself rather enjoying the decadence of a cigar divan, are beautifully written. Adrian Barlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04526714501872493961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-44512209361242557792016-10-25T06:13:02.648-07:002016-10-25T06:13:02.648-07:00Thank you - as always, your writing comes as a ple...Thank you - as always, your writing comes as a pleasure I turn to from more unsympathetic tasks. It's also characteristically thoughtful. The Warden is on my short list of ever-re-readable short novels. I pick it up again every couple of years and get through it in a few hours. The chapters set in London have a solid sense of time and place that I still relish. <br /><br />Please keep these coming, Adrian!tomdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03766237341387024779noreply@blogger.com