About this title: A story of unrequited love set against the backdrop of dramatic social and political change, the novel introduces Trollope's favorite heroine, Lily Dale, as well as Plantagenet Palliser and Lady Glencora. The plot concerns Lily's rejection of her impassioned and persistent suitor, Johnny Eames, in favor of a social-climbing parvenu--who eventually jilts her. When the novel was being serialized in the Cornhill magazine, Trollope was deluged with letters begging him to let Lily Dale marry Johnny Eames.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780192815521ISBN:0192815520
Description: Good. Standard used condition. May have light reading or storage wear All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781853262234ISBN:1853262234
Description: Good. 7.7 x 5.0 x 1.2 inches. Spine uncreased, some light and creasing to the covers. Interior clean. Bump to upper corner of center of text block. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780192815521ISBN:0192815520
Description: Good+ with no dust jacket; Moderate cover wear. Age-toned. Binding tight, text clean. Due to size and/or weight of the book I can only ship it domestic media mail. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. 0192815520; 16991. World's Classics; 1.4 x 7.1 x 4.5 Inches; 688 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Everyman Press, United Kingdom
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780460877947ISBN:0460877941
Description: As New. 5 x 8. 626 pgs. Story develops Trollope's condern with the clash between settled rural innocence and metropolitan immorality. Book is new. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Pr
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780195208108ISBN:0195208102
Description: Vg-/fine. A Barsetshire Novel. ownership stamp on copyright page (community library); ta pe remnants on covers; top layer of paper lifted bottom back where an unsuccess ful attempt was made to take off the tape ISBN: 0195208102. read more
"As this series goes on, Trollope becomes increasingly better at character development and insight. While the mores of the time seem foreign today, so many of the emotions and characteristics of human nature remain the same. Well done."
I thoroughly enjoy Trollope . . . except when he's on his hobby-horse about women who dared to love the wrong fellow being forever afterward spoiled goods, and who should not taint another good man.
The heroine of this book is one of the most annoying EVER as she rides this hobbyhorse to death. And if Trollope hadn't been such a good writer, I never would have finished the thing.
So . . . A for Trollope's usual vivid writing and scene setting, and F for the ew factor."
"I think I may have enjoyed this above all of the books in the chronicle, not just because it was a romance . . . after all it was a romance that ended poorly . . . but because it told so deeply of its characters souls. I felt I kneww Lily and Belle like my own sisters; hated yet pitied Crosby; admired Johnny Eames; and, respected as well as liked the fine folk. For insight and emotion, this book is the one out of all that tells a tragic story out and out, yet we are resolved to it without a deep resentment of the author. I would compare it to Jane Austen, which, coming from me, is to say much."
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