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...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 fictioneers; reissued as the first of a new Trollope series (TIME, July...
...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 fictioneers; re-issued as the first of a new Trollope series (TIME, July...
...Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope...
When the book begins, heroine Lady Mason is a loved and lovely widow, long domiciled at Orley Farm. Over 20 years have passed since her aged husband, on his deathbed, bequeathed the farm to their infant son. Or so the legal world had always believed-and would have continued to believe, had not young Lucius Mason, on taking over the old farm at the age of 22, brusquely brought to an end a certain Mr. Dockwrath's tenancy of two of the Orley fields...
...Dockwrath was a sly, vindictive man. He was also a shrewd country lawyer. When he was kicked out of Orley he retorted by digging into an old trunk and producing a couple of legal documents that threatened ruin to Lady Mason and her impetuous...