Orley Farm

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

The Great Orley Farm Case arose out of certain irregularities—and ensuing complications—in the will of Sir Joseph Mason. Did Lady Mason forge her husband's signature to the codicil bequeathing the farm to her son? Is she a criminal? Orley Farm is Trollope at his most penetrating—weighing and balancing individual hearts against English custom. Two vol. bound as one.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781022965379
Publisher:	Anson Street Press
Publication date:	03/28/2025
Pages:	682
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.44(d)

About the Author

Francis O'Gorman has edited Anthony Trollope's The Duke's Children, Framley Parsonage, and The Way We Live Now for the Oxford World's Classics series, as well as John Ruskin's Praeterita and Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers. He has written widely on English literature, mostly from the nineteenth century, and his recent publications include The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin (2016), the Twenty-first Century Oxford Authors edition of Algernon Charles Swinburne (2016), and volume 5 of the Oxford Selected Prose of Edward Thomas on Thomas's literary criticism (2017). Francis O'Gorman, who was educated at the University of Oxford, is Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and is currently editing Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone for OUP and writing a book for Bloomsbury called The Limits of Liberalism.

Table of Contents

Biographical PrefaceIntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Anthony TrollopeORLEY FARMAppendix 1: Dates in the NovelAppendix 2: Anthony Trollope Cross-Examined in the Kerry Summer AssizesExplanatory Notes