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    The Golden Lion of Granpere
    The Golden Lion of Granpere
    The Golden Lion of Granpere
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    The Golden Lion of Granpere

    By Anthony Trollope

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 1981
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    Anthony Trollope

    <p><b>Anthony Trollope</b> nació en Londres en 1815, hijo de un abogado en bancarrota y de Frances Trollope, que, tras fracasar montando un bazar en Cincinatti, escribió <i>Usos y costumbres de los americanos</i> (ALBA CLÁSICA núm. XLVIII), con la que inició una carrera literaria que le reportó fama y prosperidad económica. Anthony se educó en Harrow, Sunbury y Winchester, donde se sintió a disgusto entre los miembros de la aristocracia, y nunca llegó a la Universidad. En 1824 empezó a trabajar en el servicio de correos, donde permanecería hasta 1867. Tras siete años en Londres fue trasladado a Irlanda, y de ahí a nuevos destinos por el Reino Unido, Egipto y las Indias Occidentales.</p> <p>En 1847 publicó su primera novela, <i>The Macdermots of Ballycloran</i>, y en 1855 <i>El custodio</i>, la primera del ciclo ambientado en la mítica ciudad de Barchester (trasunto de Winchester) y en las intrigas políticas de su clero. Este ciclo lo consolidó como autor realista y le dio una gran popularidad. En 1864 inició con <i>Can You Forgive Her?</i> otro ciclo, el de las novelas de Palliser, en el que retrataría los entresijos de la vida política y matrimonial de los parlamentarios londinenses. En 1868 él mismo se presentó como candidato liberal a las elecciones, pero no fue elegido. Entre sus últimas obras cabe destacar <i>The Way We Live Now</i> (1875), una gran sátira del capitalismo. Murió en Londres en 1882.</p>

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    • 3/5
      A beautiful edition, but very much a "lesser" Trollope. Too short, too direct in its plotting. Just a little too thin for me.
    • 3/5
      Second cousins by marriage George and Marie grow up together at the inn at Granpere and fall in love, but are separated by George's father Michel (for shadowy never fully explained reasons). George is sent away to run an inn in a town a few hours away and fails to communicate with Marie for an entire year. Thinking she has been forgotten, Marie reluctantly agrees to marry Adrian, a linen merchant from Basle. George finally pulls his finger out and then Marie tries to break off her engagement.That is really the whole of the plot pf this (fortunately short) novel. Trollope clearly was an early practitioner of the "this could all have been avoided with one frank conversation" romance trope. The character of Michel (apart from Trollope's insistence on his love for Marie being demonstrated in persecution and verbal abuse) was well-done and the ending, where everyone is desperate to get rid of poor Adrian was very funny. George was a bit grumpy to poor Madame Faragon and uncommunicative to every one else. Otherwise repetitive and made me want to shout "Why don't you just say what you think?" at the characters all the time.

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