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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes them deliver oral reports. By the end of the year, says he, his class should have covered a lot of reading without a single whereas. Among the books on his list: Dreiser's An American Tragedy (murder), Melville's Billy Budd (admiralty law), Trollope's Orley Farm (perjury and forgery), and Dickens' Bleak House-"a wonderful example," says Davenport, "of the slow machinery of the law and how it bankrupts everybody before the trial is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Literary Lawyers | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope. Country life in Victorian England with a full-blown Trollopean cast of characters and enough novelist's insight to equip a dozen contemporary novelists; reissued as the first of a new Trollope series (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Aug. 28, 1950 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope. Country life in Victorian England with a full-blown Trollopean cast of characters and enough novelist's insight to equip a dozen contemporary novelists ; reissued as the first of a new Trollope series (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Aug. 21, 1950 | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope. Country life in Victorian England with a full-blown Trollopean cast of characters and enough novelist's insight to equip a dozen contemporary novelists; reissued as the first of a new Trollope series (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Aug. 14, 1950 | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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