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The Bertrams Kindle Edition

by Anthony Trollope (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0083ZY4KQ
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 16, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 771 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 490 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1546413154
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Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope (1815-82) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire, but he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.

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Paul in L.A.
5.0 out of 5 stars How does Mr. Trollope do it?
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2017
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This is perhaps the fifteenth of his novels I have read, and I imagined it might be sort of second-tier, since it's not among the dozen most famous. Think again! This one is entirely satisfactory, with all the treats you've come to hope for, unexpected new turns and variations, comedy, emotion, psychological insight, a flowing river of language and a humane and personable narrator. Highly recommended to any reader of Eliot or Thackeray, Sayers, sometimes Forster. The inevitable comparisons with Austen aren't so far off the mark either. Much livelier and less forced than Dickens. Trollope forever!
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Ken
4.0 out of 5 stars Among the Best of His Stand-Alone Novels
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2016
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I thought this was among the best stand-alone Trollope novels; that is, it's not a novel in a series of novels). And unusual as well, in that his characters take on critically such subjects as the rationality of religion and the customary goodness of mothers. Trollope, always charming for engaging the reader personally (as if he were speaking directly to the reader) seems to do so even more frequently in this book. Of course, a love story is at the heart of the book, but the story is unique, anything but stereotypical.
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Margie Simmons
5.0 out of 5 stars Trollope adds something different
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2009
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Trollope delivers his usual good story with good characters but adds something new here--an Englishman's view of Jerusalem in the 1800s. It's fascinating, and he reveals his own Christian beliefs in this book very clearly. The two romances are also a little different from his usual ones--very satisfying, I thought. And, again, he does not neglect humor. Having read many Trollope novels, I rate this one among the best.
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chef jeff
4.0 out of 5 stars A good Trollope book
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2021
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Not one of his better known books but it is a good one. The print is a bit small but readable.
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roberta
3.0 out of 5 stars Not one of Trollope's best and the Amazon edition
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2017
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Not one of Trollope's best and the Amazon edition, apparently slapped together by someone who is no better at using modern technology than I am, still told a story in his style and I am glad I read it.
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K. Hagen
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2013
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I never know how Trollope's books will end. They transport to another time when people studied others' faces-- or at least they did so in books. Thoughts and feelings were contemplated more deeply-- or so it appears.

I've read many of Trollope's books and would like to read them all. Most of his stories deal with serious subjects, but he still can make me laugh with some of the names he chooses for his characters.

This is one intriguing story, with lots of twists and turns.
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Athenaesq
4.0 out of 5 stars flawed, thought-provoking characters
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2014
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The chief interest in this books lies in the flaws of the leading characters, and the consequences of those flaws for their lives. Pride, arrogance, impulsiveness, selfishness, naïveté--a disregard for love and its power to create happiness in life. This is a very Victorian novel in its concern for property, and the impact of more or less property on people's lives and choices, but there is something very modern in the self-centered moral ambiguity of George Bertram and Caroline Waddington. I found the development of these characters fascinating.
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Judith Kurtz
1.0 out of 5 stars All the errors and large format of the book
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2020
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Anthony Trollope is one of the greatest writers
For some one to type out one of his novels claiming it by using his name and to disrespect this great man with
Using a copy of his contents page then typing out With so many errors his words in a format that is impossible to hold ( size which is not a standard novel size) is an insult. Did not even take the time to edit their work which had so many errors. I’m no genus but I do recognize that this work as a farce I could not get past the second chapter of this
Travesty done to Anthony Trollope’s work. I’m sure if someone does edit the book and counts the number of errors
Just in the 1st 2 chapters they will understand my distress.(can’t even imagine how many there would be in the whole thing) Rest In Peace Anthony Trollope you are one of the great ones.
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BAPT ISABELLE
1.0 out of 5 stars Le pire de l'OCR, comment peut on vendre un tel produit ?
Reviewed in France on January 2, 2022
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A éviter, je ne juge pas le romain mais l'édition : une vraie catastrophe. La mise en page est défectueuse, les caractères sont parfois mal reproduits, h devient n, m devient in, sans parler de la ponctuation très hasardeuse. Bref très difficile à lire. On voit bien qu'il s'agit d'une édition ancienne scannée et passée à l'OCR, mais sans relecture. Même les images de la couverture sont déformées. Je regrette cet achat.
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Elizabeth R.Hankin
5.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 20, 2021
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What a beautiful hardback copy of this book for just over six pounds. It has its own red cardboard cover, it has gold lettering and as far as I can see though the seller said there were notes in the book so far I can find nothing. It's perfect. Thank you so much.
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2.0 out of 5 stars pleins d'erreurs de typographie, de mise en page, d'orthographe
Reviewed in France on December 16, 2018
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pénible à lire vu la quantité d'erreurs de toutes sortes ; je ne recommande pas cette édition.
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Anthony Marinelli
4.0 out of 5 stars george bertrams life as an author and christian are on display and he leaves all wealth and romance for exactly what?
Reviewed in Canada on July 6, 2016
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here is an early novel by Trollope and is forgotten but deserves to be remembered. There is much in it of his Christian beliefs which he has put into the character of George Bertram and here George is a failure at most things including his love affair with caroline Waddington who goes on to marry sir harry but George is a successful author and there are many love affairs in this novel which hit the rocks. George's affair with caroline never comes off as does his father's sir lionel with his intended victims but wee are not so sympathetic for sir lionel since he is just looking for money. BUt George is looking for love but as his travels to the middle east show us he finds authorship instead of love and tries to come to terms with his Christian faith which opens up discussions about religion with the pastor Arthur Wilkerson.

The novel is all about broken relationships George is looking for love not money though at the end a will is read which he presumes to be excluded as his uncle dies but I wont spoil the plot as to whether he gets money or not? The novel exists on many levels,,George's travels, his doubting of Christian dogmas, his friendship with sir harry and Arthur Wilkerson(who marries successfully though he is very poor)..and though he does not seek money and tries to avoid it his final request at the end to be in his uncle's will will he get something even though he did not marry whom his uncle intended him to marry carole Waddington. An interesting novel has much in it of Trollope's Christian views and the debate on religion is interesting and there are many interesting characters and romances and a good story to boot. Recommended
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Brexit-Gegner aus England
4.0 out of 5 stars Düsterer Roman über Geldliebe und weltliche Gesinnung
Reviewed in Germany on June 2, 2016
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Anthony Trollope: The Bertams. Edited with an Introduction by Georffrey Harvey. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 1991. XXX und 597 Seiten, Paperback.

Anthony Trollope war nichts, wenn nicht fleißig. 1858, als er den bis heute beliebten Roman "Doctor Thorne" zu Ende geschrieben hatte, setzte er sich gleich am nächsten Tag hin (so berichtet er es selbst in seiner "Autobiographie"), um mit den "Bertrams" anzufangen - und das, obwohl er auf Fernreise war. Die beiden Erzählungen sind äußerlich sehr unterschiedlich, so dass mancher Leser sich gefragt hat, welchen gemeinsamen Ansatz oder Ausgangspunkt beide Bücher haben. Meine Antwort: Es geht um Geld. In "Doctor Thorne" stirbt ein Self-Made-Man (Roger Scatcherd) und hinterlässt sein Riesenvermögen dem armen Waisenkind Mary Thorne, was am Ende ihr Glück ermöglicht. In "The Bertrams" bleibt der Börsenspekulant George Bertram, senior, fast bis zum Ende des Buches am Leben und quält die anderen Personen mit Drohungen, Versprechungen und Geschenken, hinterlässt jedoch keinem von ihnen sein gesamtes Vermögen, auf das fast alle ihr Leben lang schielen. Nur zwei männliche Charaktere widerstehen dieser Versuchung: George Bertram, junior, der Neffe des alten Geizkragens, und dessen Jugendfreund und Verwandter Arthur, der eine gute, gesittete, aber ärmliche Karriere als Pfarrer einschlägt. Der jüngere George ist am Anfang des Buches ebenfalls vom Pfarrerberuf begeistert, lässt sich jedoch durch die auf Geld und Ansehen schielende Gesinnung seiner "Angebeteten" Caroline Waddington von einer geistlichen Laufbahn abbringen und wendet sich, zunächst mit Erfolg, der Rechtskunde zu. George und Caroline lernen sich in Jerusalem kennen, und George reist später nach Istanbul und noch später nach Ägypten, was dem Buch einige recht exotische Kapitel im Charakter eines Reiseberichts beschert. Den Rest der Geschichte will ich hier lieber nicht verraten. Sie spielt die meiste Zeit in London, in "Littlebath" (Trollopes Bezeichnung für Cheltenham) und im fiktiven Ort Hadley (Middlesex). Der versöhnliche Schluss kann nicht kaschieren, dass das Buch manche schwierige Seiten des Lebens berührt, und Trollope selbst, über den Erfolg des heiteren "Doctor Thorne" überrascht, war anscheinend nicht weiter verwundert, dass "The Bertrams" nur geringen Absatz fand. Die World's Classics-Ausgabe ist insofern eine Rarität, denn "The Bertrams" hat bis heute nie die Popularität der Barchester-Romane erlangt, obwohl Trollope sich hier als Meister seines erzählerischen Fachs erweist. Herausgeber Geoffrey Harvey hat das Buch mit einem aufschlussreichen einleitenden Aufsatz, einem Überblick über Leben und Werk Trollopes sowie mehreren Seiten mit knappen, aber informativen Anmerkungen versehen, die ein heutiger Leser vermutlich braucht, um die vielen altmodischen oder lateinischen Begriffe und um die häufigen Zitate aus der Bibel oder der klassischen Literatur nachzuvollziehen.
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