Full name: Marion Fay: A Novel

Author: Anthony Trollope Year: 1882 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140438482 0140438483

The novel contrasts two love affairs, each involving an aristocrat and a commoner. The subversive Lord Hampstead's plunge into middle class society in his passionate pursuit of Marion Fay, a Quaker and daughter of a City clerk, is balanced by the testing of his radical friend George Roden, a clerk in the General Post Office, whose bizarre experiences among the aristocracy during his courtship of Hampstead's sister Lady Frances Trafford, are employed to satirize the concept of rank. Trollope vividly evokes the dull working lives, plain homes, blank streets, and limited horizons of the dwellers in Paradise Row,using them as an ironic choric commentary on the unattainable world of rank, wealth and freedom, symbolized by life in the great country houses. Similar books: The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope The Kellys and the O'Kellys by Anthony Trollope Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope Kept in the Dark by Anthony Trollope An Old Man's Love by Anthony Trollope The Claverings by Anthony Trollope The Golden Lion of Granpere by Anthony Trollope Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope The American Senator by Anthony Trollope Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope