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Ooh, another Trollope reader. Legolas Send a noteboard - 13/05/2013 10:33:28 PM

View original postfinishing the seventh work (this one a relatively short epistolary novel) out of the ninety one works making up Balzac's La Comédie Humaine cycle.

Have you read them before? I've been meaning to read one or a few Balzac's, but no way am I going to read them all, so do let me know which ones are the best.
View original postIn parallel I'm in the last chapters of La Curée, the second novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle.

And same with that one.
View original postI was halfway into the first novel of the Chronicles of Barsetshire by Trollope last week too but I sort of grew bored with it and took a break from it.

My Trollope has been limited to the first five Palliser books so far, but I own The Warden, Barchester Towers and The Way We Live Now as well, will get around to those eventually. Not too many people read Trollope anymore... of course he's not up to the standards of Dickens or Eliot or even Hardy, but the Palliser novels definitely have their moments.
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