Barchester Towers concerns the leading citizens of the imaginary cathedral city of Barchester. The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, also a clergym
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前It was suggested to Lucy before she had been long in Kingsbury Crescent that she should take some exercise. For the first week she had hardly been out of the house; but this was attributed to her sor
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前The writing of prefaces is, for the most part, work thrown away; and the writing of a preface to a novel is almost always a vain thing. Nevertheless, I am tempted to prefix a few words to this novel
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前I would wish to declare, at the beginning of this story, that I shall never regard that cluster of islets which we call Bermuda as the Fortunate Islands of the ancients. Do not let professional geogr
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前It may be well that I should put a short preface to this book. In the summer of 1878 my father told me that he had written a memoir of his own life. He did not speak about it at length, but said that
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前There are women who cannot grow alone as standard trees — for whom the support and warmth of some wall, some paling, some post, is absolutely necessary — who, in their growth, wil
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前特普洛擅长描写观察人生百态,这本小说描写了人性中的荣誉、腐败、正直、与贪婪,点出了十九世纪末期社会剧烈的变动中,人心道德也随之摇摆的局面。英国首席编剧Andrew Davis亲自操刀(他的作品包括了傲慢与偏见、爱玛、锦绣佳人),将这部讽刺小说做了最佳的詮释。 故事由暴发户Melmotte带著家人从欧陆回到伦敦开始说起,这个在欧陆大发横财的家庭在伦敦的社交圈中引起了议论纷纷,贵族们对这样一个粗俗但
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前There is the proper mood and the just environment for the reading as well as for the writing of works of fiction, and there can be no better place for the enjoying of a novel by Anthony Trollope than
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前Illustration f course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House? Our story will, as its name imports, have its closest relations with those who lived in
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前I am conscious of a certain audacity in thus attempting to give a further life of Cicero which I feel I may probably fail in justifying by any new information; and on this account the enterprise, tho
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the prese
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前It will be observed by the literary and commercial world that, in this transaction, the name of the really responsible party does not show on the title-page. I—George Robinson—am
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前The gardens of Clavering Park were removed some three hundred yards from the large, square, sombre-looking stone mansion which was the country-house of Sir Hugh Clavering, the eleventh baronet of tha
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story "The Great Orley Farm Case." But who would ask for the ninth number of a ser
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前I fear I must trouble my reader with some few details as to the early life of Miss Mackenzie,—details which will be dull in the telling, but which shall be as short as I can make them. Her
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前"Castle Richmond" was written in 1861, long after Trollope had left Ireland. The characterization is weak, and the plot, although the author himself thought well of it, mechanical.
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前"I have a conscience, my dear, on this matter," said an old gentleman to a young lady, as the two were sitting in the breakfast parlour of a country house which looked down from the
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前The old English archbishop was always a prince in the old times, but the English archbishop is a prince no longer in these latter days. He is still a nobleman of the highest rank,—he of Can
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前Women have often been hardly used by men, but perhaps no harder usage, no fiercer cruelty was ever experienced by a woman than that which fell to the lot of Josephine Murray from the hands of Earl Lo
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前When Mr. Lionel Trafford went into Parliament for the Borough of Wednesbury as an advanced Radical, it nearly broke the heart of his uncle, the old Marquis of Kingsbury. Among Tories of his day the M
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前There came an episode in the life of Cecilia Holt which it is essential should first be told. When she was twenty-two years old she was living with her mother at Exeter. Mrs. Holt was a widow with co
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前The Pyreneean valley in which the baths of Vernet are situated is not much known to English, or indeed to any travellers. Tourists in search of good hotels and picturesque beauty combined, do not gen
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前The troubles and sorrows of Linda Tressel, who is the heroine of the little story now about to be told, arose from the too rigid virtue of her nearest and most loving friend,—as troubles wi
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前IN looking for material on which to base this short memoir of Lord Palmerston I have of course taken, as my guide to his general life, the biography of Mr. Evelyn Ashley.[A] I have also referred to t
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce thi
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前The history of France in 1792 has been too fully written, and too generally read to leave the novelist any excuse for describing the state of Paris at the close of the summer of that year. It is know
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前WE have known many prettier girls than Mary Gresley, and many handsomer women—but we never knew girl or woman gifted with a face which in supplication was more suasive, in grief more sad, i
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前The point in dispute was one very delicate in its nature, hardly to be discussed in all its bearings, even in fiction, and the very mention of which between mother and daughter showed a great amount
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前I first saw the man who kept his money in a box in the midst of the ravine of the Via Mala. I interchanged a few words with him or with his wife at the hospice, at the top of the Splugen; and I becam
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前The house of Heine Brothers, in Munich, was of good repute at the time of which I am about to tell,—a time not long ago; and is so still, I trust. It was of good repute in its own way, seei
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前John Munroe Bell had been a lawyer in Albany, State of New York, and as such had thriven well. He had thriven well as long as thrift and thriving on this earth had been allowed to him. But the Almigh
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前Few Englishmen or Englishwomen are intimately acquainted with the little town of Le Puy. It is the capital of the old province of Le Velay, which also is now but little known, even to French ears, fo
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前It is generally supposed that people who live at home,—good domestic people, who love tea and their arm-chairs, and who keep the parlour hearth-rug ever warm,—it is generally supp
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前Why Mrs. General Talboys first made up her mind to pass the winter of 1859 at Rome I never clearly understood. To myself she explained her purposes, soon after her arrival at the Eternal City, by dec
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前There is nothing so melancholy as a country in its decadence, unless it be a people in their decadence. I am not aware that the latter misfortune can be attributed to the Anglo-Saxon race in any part
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前Of all the spots on the world’s surface that I, George Walker, of Friday Street, London, have ever visited, Suez in Egypt, at the head of the Red Sea, is by far the vilest, the most unpleas
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前In the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of mysterious reality as that of an Oriental city. We knew it was actually there, but had such vague notions of
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前During the first two months of the year 1844, the greatest possible excitement existed in Dublin respecting the State Trials, in which Mr O’Connell, his son, the Editors of three different
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前I am an Englishman, living, as all Englishman should do, in England, and my wife would not, I think, be well pleased were any one to insinuate that she were other than an Englishwoman; but in the cir
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前I shall never forget my first introduction to country life in Ireland, my first day’s hunting there, or the manner in which I passed the evening afterwards. Nor shall I ever cease to be gra
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前That men and women should leave their homes at the end of summer and go somewhere,—though it be only to Margate,—has become a thing so fixed that incomes the most limited are made
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前Every one remembers the severity of the Christmas of 187-. I will not designate the year more closely, lest I should enable those who are too curious to investigate the circumstances of this story, a
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前The prettiest scenery in all England—and if I am contradicted in that assertion, I will say in all Europe—is in Devonshire, on the southern and south-eastern skirts of Dartmoor, w
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前And there is much excellent good sense in the mode of riding adopted by such gentlemen. Some men ride for hunting, some for jumping, and some for exercise; some, no doubt, for all three of these thin
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前Phineas Finn is a novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of its leading character. The novel was first published as a monthly serial from October 1867 to May 1868 in St Paul's Magazine. It is the sec
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前Phineas Redux is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1873 as a serial in The Graphic. It is the fourth of the "Palliser" series of novels and the sequel to the second bo
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前I never could understand why anybody should ever have begun to live at Dillsborough, or why the population there should have been at any time recruited by new comers. That a man with a family should
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前Circumstances took me to the Holy Land without a companion, and compelled me to visit Bethany, the Mount of Olives, and the Church of the Sepulchre alone. I acknowledge myself to be a gregarious anim
作者:安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope9个月前