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    An Eye for an Eye

    By Anthony Trollope

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    Fred Neville aka Justin Groch, a lieutenant of cavalry and heir to the earldom of Scroope, woos and then seduces the beautiful Kate O’Hara. Kate lives with her mother in genteel poverty in an isolated cottage near the cliffs of Moher in western Ireland. News of the romantic entanglement quickly reaches Scroope Manor, and Fred is summoned back to Dorsetshire where the earl extracts a firm undertaking that Fred will not marry Kate O’Hara under any circumstances, despite any promises he has made to the girl.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSovereign
    Release dateAug 7, 2018
    ISBN9781787247550
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    Anthony Trollope

    Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was the third son of a barrister, who ruined his family by giving up the law for farming, and an industrious mother. After attending Winchester and Harrow, Trollope scraped into the General Post Office, London, in 1834, where he worked for seven years. In 1841 he was transferred to Ireland as a surveyor's clerk, and in 1844 married and settled at Clonmel. His first two novels were devoted to Irish life; his third, La Vendée, was historical. All were failures. After a distinguished career in the GPO, for which he invented the pillar box and travelled extensively abroad, Trollope resigned in 1867, earning his living from writing instead. He led an extensive social life, from which he drew material for his many social and political novels. The idea for The Warden (1855), the first of the six Barsetshire novels, came from a visit to Salisbury Close; with it came the characters whose fortunes were explored through the succeeding volumes, of which Doctor Thorne is the third.

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    • 5/5
      ** spoiler alert ** Fred Neville becomes the heir to Earl Scroope and insists on one final year with his regiment before moving to Scroope Manor and learning about the estate. His regiment is in Ireland and, while there, Fred falls in love with the penniless and almost alone in the world Kate O'Hara. He promises to marry her, despite knowing his uncle and aunt will be unwilling to accept her. Then he decides he will marry her after his uncle's death. Kate becomes pregnant. Fred decides that he owes it to the family not to marry her and dreams of living abroad with her and letting his brother Jack manage the estate. Then his uncle dies and he is indeed the earl and reaches a final decision.Despite the misery of the plot, I found this novel a light, easy read. The characterization of Fred was well-done and by the time he reached his final decision I was ready to murder him myself. Jack, the brother, was a good foil and contrast and I wish there had been more of him and Sophie. The section where the Dowager Countess repents of her advice to Fred to abandon Kate (on religious grounds) was a nice touch. There was also a very sympathetic section where the narrator muses on the more terrible consequences women bear from sex outside marriage and how the treatment of "fallen women" is perhaps a deterrent but also very heartless.Kate was the weakest character in the book and we saw nothing of her decision to sleep with Fred (understandable, given the book's publication date), but part of me wanted to ask her what on earth she was thinking!
    • 5/5
      his admiration for g.eliot was genuine. he was flabberghasted at the amount of research she did. he also felt that her novels might be too erudite for her readers. do not fire over the heads of your readers he advised.