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Title: Orley Farm
Condition: New
EAN: 9780198803744
ISBN: 9780198803744
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 28/06/2018
Item Height: 196mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 34mm
Item Weight: 515g
Contributor: Francis O'Gorman (Edited by)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198803745
Description: There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful.Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt of Lady Mason. Surrounding this enigmatic woman and her apparent crime are her elderly lover, Sir Peregrine Orme; her principled but thoughtless son, Lucius; and, not least, a group of determined lawyers. Orley Farm contains the plot with which Trollope was most pleased. Drawing on family experience of the loss of an inheritance, the novel tackles the tremendous question of property fraud. The result, as George Orwell observed, is one of the most brilliant novels about a law suit in English fiction. Orley Farm dates from a confident period of its authorâs life. It breathes an air of writerly assurance, with Trollope at the height of his competitiveness with Dickens. In this work Trollope claims the Victorian legal novel as his own.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Classic Fiction, Literary Criticism
Author: Anthony Trollope
Release Year: 2018

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