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Orley Farm

by Anthony TROLLOPE (1815 - 1882)

38 - OH, INDEED!

Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English language. Trollope's people are real; the beleaguered Lady Mason, charged with forging a will; the aged lover Sir Peregrine Orme; Madeleine Stavely, deeply but practically in love; the shallow, fickle Sophia Furnival and others are 3-dimensional figures that live and breathe. His satire of the so-called "justice" system is the best kind of satire: he just describes the court proceedings as they really are. The result is as up-to-date as today's newspaper. (Introduction by Leonard Wilson)

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Listen next episodes of Orley Farm:
39 - WHY SHOULD HE GO? , 40 - I CALL IT AWFUL , 41 - HOW CAN I SAVE HIM? , 42 - JOHN KENNEBY GOES TO HAMWORTH , 43 - JOHN KENNEBY'S COURTSHIP , 44 - SHOWING HOW LADY MASON COULD BE VERY NOBLE , 45 - SHOWING HOW MRS. ORME COULD BE VERY WEAK MINDED , 46 - A WOMAN'S IDEA OF FRIENDSHIP , 47 - THE GEM OF THE FOUR FAMILIES , 48 - THE ANGEL OF LIGHT UNDER A CLOUD , 49 - MRS. FURNIVAL CAN'T PUT UP WITH IT , 50 - IT IS QUITE IMPOSSIBLE , 51 - MRS. FURNIVAL'S JOURNEY TO HAMWORTH , 52 - SHOWING HOW THINGS WENT ON AT NONINGSBY , 53 - LADY MASON RETURNS HOME , 54 - TELLING ALL THAT HAPPENED BENEATH THE LAMP-POST , 55 - WHAT TOOK PLACE IN HARLEY STREET , 56 - HOW SIR PEREGRINE DID BUSINESS WITH MR. ROUND , 57 - THE LOVES AND HOPES OF ALBERT FITZALLEN , 58 - MISS STAVELEY DECLINES TO EAT MINCED VEAL , 59 - NO SURRENDER , 60 - WHAT REBEKAH DID FOR HER SON , 61 - THE STATE OF PUBLIC OPINION , 62 - WHAT THE FOUR LAWYERS THOUGHT ABOUT IT , 63 - THE EVENING BEFORE THE TRIAL , 64 - THE FIRST JOURNEY TO ALSTON , 65 - FELIX GRAHAM RETURNS TO NONINGSBY , 66 - SHOWING HOW MISS FURNIVAL TREATED HER LOVERS , 67 - MR. MOULDER BACKS HIS OPINION , 68 - THE FIRST DAY OF THE TRIAL , 69 - THE TWO JUDGES , 70 - HOW AM I TO BEAR IT? , 71 - SHOWING HOW JOHN KENNEBY AND BRIDGET BOLSTER BORE THEMSELVES IN COURT , 72 - MR. FURNIVAL'S SPEECH , 73 - MRS. ORME TELLS THE STORY , 74 - YOUNG LOCHINVAR , 75 - THE LAST DAY , 76 - I LOVE HER STILL , 77 - JOHN KENNEBY'S DOOM , 78 - THE LAST OF THE LAWYERS , 79 - FAREWELL , 80 - SHOWING HOW AFFAIRS SETTLED THEMSELVES AT NONINGSBY