Orley Farm German Edition eBook Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope
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Seit zwanzig Jahren ist Orley Farm nun schon im gerichtlich erstrittenen Besitz von Lady Mason und ihrem Sohn Lucius. Damals war der Zusatz zu dem Testament des verstorbenen Joseph Mason angefochten worden, der in der Handschrift Lady Masons verfügte, dass das Gut Orley nicht dem älteren Sohn aus erster Ehe zufallen solle, sondern dem jüngeren Nachkommen. Doch es war dem Kläger Joseph Mason Junior nicht gelungen zu beweisen, dass Lady Mason den Testamentszusatz gefälscht habe. Nun, nach all diesen Jahren, sucht der Rechtsanwalt Samuel Dockwrath Joseph Mason Junior auf und legt ihm nahe, dass es doch noch eine Möglichkeit gebe, sich in den Besitz von Orley Farm zu setzen – mittels eines zweiten Prozesses. Als Lady Mason von diesen Plänen erfährt, scheint sie am Boden zerstört zu sein, sehr zur Verwunderung ihres Sohnes, denn wurde nicht im ersten Prozess bewiesen, dass es hinsichtlich der Besitzverhältnisse keinerlei Zweifel geben könne? Gab es nicht darüber hinaus den Grundsatz, dass niemand zweimal des gleichen Verbrechens angeklagt werden könne? Doch Lady Mason hat guten Grund, die Gelassenheit ihres Sohnes nicht zu teilen, sondern vielmehr äußerst besorgt zu sein …
Anthony Trollope gilt als einer der erfolgreichsten, produktivsten und angesehensten Autoren der viktorianischen Literatur und erfreut sich, auch wenn er im deutschen Sprachraum noch als Geheimtipp gehandelt wird, unter der englischsprachigen Leserschaft weiterhin enormer Beliebtheit. George Orwell war der Meinung, die Schilderung des Prozesses in „Orley Farm“ sei eine der großartigsten in der englischen Romanliteratur.
Orley Farm German Edition eBook Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope
This review applies specifically to the 2016 CreateSpace edition featuring the Millais illustrations.<b>Do not buy this book.</b> I wish I could say that I had wasted my own money on it; instead, I have wasted the local library’s money.
By all means, read <i>Orley Farm</i>. You can never go wrong with Trollope. But this edition is a travesty. It is simply the raw, unedited OCR, downloadable for free from The Internet Archive, reformatted to make it still more unreadable. (I have compared texts and verified that they are the same.) Adding insult to injury, two pages of Volume I--spanning the end of Chapter VI and the beginning of Chapter VII--are missing from the text.
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Orley Farm German Edition eBook Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope Reviews
Orley Farm is the fifteenth novel by Anthony Trollope that I have read. I begin with this statement to put into context my thoughts on this work as compared with my reviews of other fine novels by Trollope, one of my favorite authors. With that bias concerning Trollope set before the reader, let me state that Orley Farm compares well with some of Trollope's finest work. As is usual with Trollope, he immediately takes us under his wing and speaks directly to us, not as an omniscient author, but as a careful observer who describes the behavior of the many characters that play a part in his story. We readers must form our own opinions, and the beauty of a Trollope novel like Orley Farm is that we do enter into the story and find ourselves giving advice and counsel to several of the important players in the drama. Sometimes our advice coincides with what Trollope thinks, sometimes not.
Everything from beginning to end in Orley Farm centers on the great Orley Farm case. Lady Mary Mason, our heroine, is accused of perjury. Her enemies say that she lied about the facts of the will left by her husband and that Orley Farm, which she says was left to her son Lucius, is the true property of Joseph Mason, Lucius's older half brother. Joseph Mason and his accomplice lawyer Samuel Dockwrath dispute her claim to the farm. They hate lady Mason with a passion and they are determined to embarrass and humiliate her. Joseph would like to see a rope around her neck, but realizes to his dismay that this ultimate penalty is impossible.
Lady Mason is certainly one of Trollope's most complex characters. She is a beautiful forty year old woman who has enormous strength of character. Both her beauty and her strength are much appreciated by some of those who know her. But no one except the reader knows the true depth of Lady Mason's personality. She appears honest and truthful, but Machiavelli would be impressed by her ability to deceive others to get what she wants for her son. With that said, she is also capable of great self-sacrifice for the good of others. In Lady Mason we have a person who on the one hand we can love, but on the other hand we know we must condemn. In this regard we are just like several of Lady Mason's best friends who are torn apart by their allegiance to her even as they know they must distance themselves from what she has done.
Lastly, many illustrations are spread nicely throughout this book and are placed appropriately in the novel. These illustrations by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais are carefully drawn small works of art that perfectly complement the story. A genuinely entertaining story illustrated by many carefully drawn small works of art make this Trollope novel easy for me to recommend to those readers already familiar with Trollope and those who would like to meet him for the first time. Highly recommended.
This review applies specifically to the 2016 CreateSpace edition featuring the Millais illustrations.
<b>Do not buy this book.</b> I wish I could say that I had wasted my own money on it; instead, I have wasted the local library’s money.
By all means, read <i>Orley Farm</i>. You can never go wrong with Trollope. But this edition is a travesty. It is simply the raw, unedited OCR, downloadable for free from The Internet Archive, reformatted to make it still more unreadable. (I have compared texts and verified that they are the same.) Adding insult to injury, two pages of Volume I--spanning the end of Chapter VI and the beginning of Chapter VII--are missing from the text.
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