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Ayala's Angel
Ayala's Angel
Ayala's Angel
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Ayala's Angel

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The novel follows two orphaned sisters, Lucy and Ayala Dormer, Ayala especially, and their trials, with first their relatives and other characters though subplots related to the main narrative.
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Release dateAug 9, 2018
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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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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Trollope is an odd duck, but some of his characters (including Ayala) are rather endearing.
    She's a stubborn, idealistic girl whose notions of what a man should be conflict with the realities of every man she meets.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If you haven't read Trollope, this is the novel to start with. Ayala and her sister, left peniless when their parents die, are sent to live with relatives. Ayala has a dream of an "angel" - a man who will sweep her off her feet and give her everything she wants and needs. Then she meets a man who is nothing like what she has been dreaming of. Will she be wise enough to recognize him as her angel?
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Enjoyable and VERY easy to read, quite hard to put down in fact. The main romance has no surprises and it's quite easy to guess how it's all going to play out (I guessed correctly after the first few chapters), but it's still lots of fun to watch it play out.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The story of two young women, Ayala and Lucy, whose parents die leaving no money and who are therefore taken in by relatives. Apart from the romances of these two sisters and their cousins, there is no other plot to speak of. Ayala, the younger, livelier sister, receives no fewer than three proposals, but rejects them all because she dreams of an ideal lover she thinks of as "an angel of light". I have to say that this theme is not as overdone as I feared it might be and Ayala does in the end come to view one of her suitors as such an angel. Lucy has a quieter romance with a poor sculptor she has known previously and is absent for such large stretches of the novel that I forgot all about her at times.There were problems for me in the management of the various strands of the story; Trollope would tell us what Lucy was up to for a couple of chapter and then backtrack a month to pick up another character's story - this happened all the time and was confusing. There was a lot of unnecessary hunting, far too much of the rejected Tom taking it badly and whining to everyone and anyone off and on for the rest of the novel. Augusta and Traffick were dreadful in a good way. I wasn't sure what to make of Houston (and Trollope didn't seem too sure either). Captain Batsby had no discernible personality and seemed all over the place in his intentions towards Gertrude. Mr and Mrs Dosett grew on you. Finally I loved Jonathan, who seemed to have wandered in from a far more modern novel, and the scene with him, Ayala and the old couple in the railway carriage was probably the funniest I have encountered in Trollope. Lots of reflections on the merits of marrying with a sufficient income/for money/for love/with an occupation.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very late, and really rather funny. A variety of good characters to enjoy. The thing does kind of get diffuse as it progresses (why do we spend so much time on Frank Houston?), but thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless.

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