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I enjoy all Trollope's Barchester novels, but this one is a particular longstanding favourite. It is always a pleasure to visit Barsetshire, so thoroughly imagined and described by Trollope (and later by Thirkell); the characters are convincing, often exasperating, always sympathetic; the story is engaging, and the outcome satisfactory; and the whole is interlaced with gentle humour. Trollope insists that the value of a book should be in the narrative and the working out of the story, not just in the final resolution. 'Take the last pages if you please -- learn from them all the results of our troubled story, and the story shall have lost none of its interest, if indeed there be any interest in it to lose' (chapter 15). The joy of the story, then, should be in the reading of it, not in the resolution of the mystery. There is no rushing a Trollope novel,…
Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers - struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect - actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other guises, led to civil war and constitutional upheaval.
That awareness heightens the comedy and intensifies the drama in this magnificent novel and it transforms the story of a fight for ascendency among the clergy and dependants of a great English cathedral into something fundamental and universal. Barchester Towers is the second of Trollope's six Barchester…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Ann Bridge transports the reader to a long-lost world: Peking (now Beijing) in the 1920s, during the Warlord Period. As Chinese warlords battle for supremacy, the European delegations and trade representatives in Peking live safely in their own enclave, enjoying a social whirl of parties, riding in the surrounding countryside, and racing the 'griffins', little Mongolian horses brought down from the north and trained for that purpose. We explore this world through the eyes of Amber Harrison from the Cotswolds in England, who travels out to Peking to escape an unhappy love affair. Alongside the fascinating descriptions of Peking and its surroundings (which Ann Bridge knew at first hand as she accompanied her husband there in the 1920s when he was acting as counsellor for the British Foreign Office) we follow Amber as she discovers how to make her mark in this strange European Expat society: by training and racing…
Author of best-selling novel Peking Picnic, Ann Bridge brings us her second novel set amongst the diplomatic circle of Peking. First published in 1934, The Ginger Griffin tells the story of a young English woman who comes to Peking to live with her diplomatic uncle, on a quest to get over an unhappy love affair she soon finds herself falling into another.The Ginger Griffin combines romance and adventure during the times when expatriates and diplomats enjoyed privileged and cosseted lives in the Far East.
