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Originally Posted by issybird
My favorite Dickens and what I think is his masterpiece is Great Expectations. That said, give me Trollope any day.  |
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Originally Posted by JaneD
Oh, I love Trollope too! He has a bit more of a contemporary feel, with more of a psychological angle than Dickens. The Palliser novels are so wonderful!
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So another oversight in my reading experience. Strange that I can't recall Trollope being even mentioned in all my years of education. What looks to be a complete set of his works is available here at MR. So can Issybird, JaneD, or anyone suggest a good first Trollope novel. Ideally not overly long. I downloaded the Palliser omnibus that HarryT provided, but even the first novel in that series (
Can You Forgive Her?) is over 900 pages. Not ready to tackle a book of that length at the moment.