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Orley Farm

by Anthony TROLLOPE (1815 - 1882)

42 - JOHN KENNEBY GOES TO HAMWORTH

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:
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