It's a very good tv version, with Tom Hollander slightly too young to be Dr Thorne ? but still lovely. Great piece, I hope you persevere with the Barchester novels...I think the Last Chronicle is on a par with The Way We Live Now...
This is great and makes me all the more convinced I should get the Trollope audiobooks and do a lot more walking. It worked for me with Middlemarch (twice! not bragging, I just couldn't think of what other long novel to choose. And I love Juliet Stevenson.)
There's also Trollope's The Way We Live Now where Melmotte eventually becomes an MP. (The BBC did a version of that one with David Suchet and a young Matthew Macfadyen)
I quite enjoy the election stuff in Middlemarch too.
Embarrassed to say I've only read a bit of Middlemarch. Until Trollope, I was convinced I could not take Very Long Victorian Novels, but I do have a real love of books about small towns, so must give it another try.
Middlemarch is one of my favourites and I think quite well paced so you don't get that middle section drag that sometimes comes in e.g. the baggier Dickens novels.
It's a very good tv version, with Tom Hollander slightly too young to be Dr Thorne ? but still lovely. Great piece, I hope you persevere with the Barchester novels...I think the Last Chronicle is on a par with The Way We Live Now...
I expect I'll forgive Tom Hollander for being too young ...
This is great and makes me all the more convinced I should get the Trollope audiobooks and do a lot more walking. It worked for me with Middlemarch (twice! not bragging, I just couldn't think of what other long novel to choose. And I love Juliet Stevenson.)
Trollope read by Timothy West is perfect. I read that his ambition is to record them all before he.. well, you know...
Thanks Sarah! I’ll be very happy to listen to that, and never mind if he didn’t get through them all.
I might investigate those too.
Timothy West is the master--I hope he succeeds!
There's also Trollope's The Way We Live Now where Melmotte eventually becomes an MP. (The BBC did a version of that one with David Suchet and a young Matthew Macfadyen)
I quite enjoy the election stuff in Middlemarch too.
Embarrassed to say I've only read a bit of Middlemarch. Until Trollope, I was convinced I could not take Very Long Victorian Novels, but I do have a real love of books about small towns, so must give it another try.
Middlemarch is one of my favourites and I think quite well paced so you don't get that middle section drag that sometimes comes in e.g. the baggier Dickens novels.
I'm allergic to Dickens, for some reason. But Middlemarch now on the list.
I have to *really* be in the mood for Dickens and can take or leave a lot of it.
Really enjoyed this. You made me want to read Dr. Thorne - and I'm not a fan of Trollope (I'll give him The Way We Live Now)...
So pleased to hear that! I haven't read The Way We Live Now. First I've got to finish the Barchester novels ...