The Readers Review: Literature from 1714 to 1910 discussion

Hello everyone, I hope you will be joining me for the next instalment of our Trollope project, He Knew He Was Right. My brief chronology places the publication of this novel in 1869, the same year as Phineas Finn and 2 years after the completion of The Last Chronicle of Barset.

So the schedule is as follows:

Oct 27-Nov 2: Ch 1-8
Nov 3-Nov 9 :Ch 9-15
Nov 10-16: Ch 16-22
Nov 17-23: Ch 23-30
Nov 24-30: Ch 31-37
Dec 1-7: Ch 38-46
Dec 8-14:Ch 47-52
Dec 15-21: Ch 53-60
Dec 22-28: Ch 61-67
Dec 29-Jan 4: Ch 68-75
Jan 5-11: Ch 76-84
Jan 12-18 : Ch 85-91
Jan 19-25: Ch 92-99

I'm hoping many of you will be joining us for this read as move into his more mature writing years (he would have been 54 when this was published).

I will be joining a bit late. We just moved, I'm behind on work, and I'm barely keeping up with New Grub Street! But I want to read it.

Whew-I wasn’t sure if anyone was going to read this-thanks Lori!

Started it once and quit so I’ll have another go.

Glad you’re joining us, sometimes it’s easier to get through with a group read

Though I've not taken part in the Trollope project so far, I've been planning to read this one for a while so would love to join you.

I've snuck ahead to Thanksgiving already.

I will definitely re-read The Way We Live Now with the group, but I'm not sure I'm up to re-read this one. One 1000 page Trollope re-read may be sufficient. If I don't read HKHWR then I'll join in on the Project again, it looks like, in late February.

One thing that's a bit annoying is that, because Amazon doesn't have the free Kindle version, I'm using the Gutenberg version, and my Kindle Fire treats the Gutenberg Kindle e-books as documents rather than books. This is fine if I just read straight through, but if I want to use my Kindle for anything else (in my case, the camera or another book), it doesn't save my place like it does with a "book" from Amazon. Because of this, I might go ahead and finish New Grub Street (which I'm also reading on Kindle) before beginning HKHWR. I just finished a big project for a client, so now I have some time to catch up on reading and should be able to join you soon.

Lori wrote: "One thing that's a bit annoying is that, because Amazon doesn't have the free Kindle version ..."

Yes, the freebie one is not available right now for 'quality control' reasons. But, if you are interested, there is a $0.99 Kindle version available on Amazon that you find when looking at the Oxford World Classic edition rather than the Penguin edition.

I might go ahead and use that. $.99 is worth the convenience of Kindle treating it as a book.

Lori wrote: "I might go ahead and use that. $.99 is worth the convenience of Kindle treating it as a book."

I often buy the $0.99 Kindle rather than a free one when that version has actual page numbers rather than just location numbers, which somehow throw me off a bit even with the % completed numbers being shown.

Emma and Dan, glad you're joining us.

Lori-that sounds frustrating-I have an iPad mini and use iBooks which allows me to access great free editions of classics with bookmarks and underlining etc. On several occasions including this one they come with the original illustrations. But nothing beats a book book for flipping around to find things!

Brian-perhaps you could pop in now and again and just read the section we're doing at that point.

Frances wrote: "Emma and Dan, glad you're joining us.

Lori-that sounds frustrating-I have an iPad mini and use iBooks which allows me to access great free editions of classics with bookmarks and underlining etc. ..."

I have the kindle Delphi classics edition of the complete works of Trollope which is great as a fall back and allows me to highlight and store quotes. I also have some real books of his on my shelves such as 'The way we live now' which I will be using as a first preference when the time comes.

I bought an app called MegaReader on my iPad years ago for a few dollars. It has access to all the Gutenberg books and several other databases, so the books are free. I have read all the Dickens and Trollope that way and now Les Mis in French. . I can change the font, bookmark, etc. Sometimes it even shows the illustrations. I haven’t decided yet if I will read this one. I got tired of Trollope, which I never did of Dickens.

Give it a try, Robin, we'd love to have you along for the read!

I’m finally able to join you for this read. I’ll catch up as quickly as possible. So far it’s wonderful to be back in Trollope-land!

Great to have you joining us, Renee!

I'm springing a couple bucks extra for illustrations. I would be willing to spring even more for annotations - if I were confident they were actual read-along explanations, not just a metadata mistake on ebook versions, or a forward.

I've been watching this 2004 mini-series as I go along, one episode per night.
Colonel Osborne = Bill Nighy, with swagger!
Mr. Gibson = David Tennant

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377186/

Bonnie wrote: "I've been watching this 2004 mini-series as I go along, one episode per night.
Colonel Osborne = Bill Nighy, with swagger!
Mr. Gibson = David Tennant

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377186/"

Laughing at the photo of Mr. Gibson between the French sisters!

"What a chance it would be for dear Arabella French!"

"Heaven forbid!" said Miss Stanbury.

"And then poor Mr. Gibson wouldn't be any longer like the donkey between two bundles of hay," said Mrs. Powel. Dorothy was quite determined that she would never marry a man who was like a donkey between two bundles of hay.

I'd forgotten about that line! :-D

Oooo! I need to track that down!

from Chapter XXXI
Chapter 31
MR. BROOKE BURGESS