Trollopeana (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from TrollopeanaNot long ago I read an essay which praised him with faint damns: the writer admitted that he was forgotten, and seemed to think that he did not deserve this fate. Now Ned Campion, the book seller, from whom two generations of readers in Philadelphia have been taking advice in the matter of fiction, had just remarked to me that he had observed a very general awakening of interest in Trollope, that he seemed to be coming into his own again, nor'is this surprising when one con siders the dearth of really enjoyable fiction.Admittedly he does not sell like Dickens, it is not so entirely the thing to have him on the shelves as Thackeray, but the reader who has not made Trollope's acquaintance has a treat in store, nor do I know an author who can be reread with greater pleasure.Nothing is more seductive and dangerous thanprophesy, but one more stupid literary forecast will not greatly increase its bulk, and so I'll venture to say that Dickens and Thackeray aside, Trollope will outlive all the other great novelists of his time. I might, perhaps, except one novel of George Eliot - but wisely will not say which one.That he will be read when writers like Charle9 Reade and Bulwer Lytton are forgotten, I feel sure, his characters are real, live men and women, without a trace of caricature or exaggeration. This cannot be said of Dickens, and it is not always true of Thackeray. His humor is delicious and his plots sufficient, although he has told us he never takes any care with them, and aside from his character dran he will be studied for his lifelike pictures of the upper and middle class English society in the time we have come to speak of as Victorian. All, not one only, of his novels might be called The Way We Live Now. Someone has said that he is our greatest realist since Fielding, he has been compared with Jane Austin, lacking her purity of style, but dealing with a much larger world. His great charm is his naturalness, his everydayness: some may call it his stupidity, but many love him and I am among the number.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.