Where to start with Trollope?

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WallabyWay · 01/05/2023 13:50

I'm trying to read The Warden and I'm really struggling with it. I find it rather tedious. Are there better Trollope books to start with?

TIA

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Xiaoxiong · 02/05/2023 12:56

I was going to suggest Barchester Towers too. Mr Slope is such a perfect baddie, I just love how completely awful he is!

I must admit I needed to listen to the warden on audible to get into it.

TonTonMacoute · 02/05/2023 12:35

Big Trollope fan here, but the Warden is boring!

Barchester Towers is the next, so you could easily go on to that and lose nothing.

With both the Pallisers and Barchesters you don't have to read them in order., but there are some references you might miss if you don't. My favourites are A Small House at Allington, and The Eustace Diamonds.

JaneyGee · 01/05/2023 19:40

ItMustBeBedtimeSurely · 01/05/2023 13:56

Try The Way We Live Now, it’s a proper page turner with some excellent characters.

Agghh…you beat me to it!! I completely agree.

Glad you are trying Trollope OP. A massively underrated writer imo. (Funny how certain very good writers get forgotten. Gissing, Swinburne, Ford Madox Ford, Henry Green, Max Beerbohm, Walter Pater, etc, are also superb, yet all pretty much unread today.)

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WallabyWay · 01/05/2023 14:08

Thank you. I might try reading a few chapters of both and see which I prefer to continue reading.

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AvengingGerbil · 01/05/2023 14:03

Doctor Thorne. TWWLN is an absolute doorstop of a book, so you have to really commit to it! DT is probably my desert island book.

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WallabyWay · 01/05/2023 13:59

Thank you. I think I'll put The Warden aside for now and try that instead.

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ItMustBeBedtimeSurely · 01/05/2023 13:56

Try The Way We Live Now, it’s a proper page turner with some excellent characters.

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