Word: orley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ORLEY FARM (729 pp.) - Anthony Trollope-Knopf...
...competent to form an opinion say that this is the best I have written," said Anthony Trollope of his eleventh novel. "The plot is probably the best I have ever made ... I do not know that there is a dull page in the book. I am fond of Orley Farm...
Publisher Knopf has been fond enough himself of Orley Farm to put it first on the list of Trollope's works with which he plans to continue the current Trollope revival. Readers should not, as Trollope himself warned them, get the impression that Orley Farm is all about "cream-cheeses, pigs with small bones, wheat sown in drills, or artificial manure." As roomy as a barracks, as thickly populated as a small village, Orley Farm is one of the least bucolic, least loose-jointed of all his placid, jog-trotting accounts of life in the quiet Victorian countryside...
...breakfast, after which he took up his duties as a hard-working civil servant in the Post Office. When he had written enough for one book, he simply wrapped up the loose ends as best he could, reached for another sheet of paper and began the next. But in Orley Farm, the plot of which was so dear to his heart, he seems for once to have figured out the whole long run in advance...
...hard to beat a Hemingway plot into the ground, kid. 20th Century-Fox tried hard to do it. They didn't quite make it. The plot's O.K. But that Orley Lindgren got such a fat part he ruined the picture, kid. That's the way the chips fall...