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Trollope singled out Orley Farm for its successful combination of realistic and sensational effects which he felt to be the highest achievement of the novelist. It was greatly admired by his contemporaries, including George Eliot and G. H. Lewes. The novel centers on a case of... Read Full Overview

Each of the 48 novels of Anthony Trollope making up the set includes a specially commissioned introduction by an internationally known figure from the academic, literary or political world, including David Skilton, Dr. John Rae, Alice Thomas Ellis and Enoch Powell.

About Orley Farm "Within a circuit of thirty miles from London no land lies more beautifully circumstanced with regard to scenery than the country about Hamworth; and its most perfect loveliness commences just beyond the slopes of Orley Farm." Orley Farm is a novel by British... Read Full Overview

It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story "The Great Orley Farm Case." But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore, -Orley Farm. I say... Read Full Overview

This story deals with the imperfect workings of the legal system in the trial and acquittal of Lady Mason. Trollope wrote in his Autobiography that his friends considered this "the best I have written".

Orley Farm is a novel written in the realist mode by Anthony Trollope, and illustrated by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais. It was first published in monthly shilling parts by the London publisher Chapman and Hall.

This story deals with the imperfect workings of the legal system in the trial and acquittal of Lady Mason. Trollope wrote in his Autobiography that his friends considered this "the best I have written".

""Orley Farm"" is a novel written by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1862. The story centers around the Orley family and their estate, Orley Farm, which is entangled in a legal dispute over ownership. The patriarch of the family, Sir Peregrine Orley, has passed away, leaving... Read Full Overview

Orley Farm is a novel by the acclaimed Victorian author, Anthony Trollope. The story is set in the English countryside and follows the lives of the Orley family, who own a large estate called Orley Farm. The family is headed by Lady Mason, a widow who has remarried and has a... Read Full Overview

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Orley Farm