Member: huffward

Thanks for the insight on Trollope's work. The larkin poem which I enjoy rereading almost as much as the real thing is the sympathy in white major, you can almost taste it.

posted by armandine2 at 11:47 am (EST) on Mar 21, 2009

Huffward, I see you have Larkin as a favourite author, have you ever read his novel A Girl in Winter? I was in a local 2nd bookshop last year and picked up Larkin's collection of music articles "All What Jazz", and, as a shot in the dark the novel. Not enough for a classic tag but a memorable story and some lovely insights as you'd expect from such a writer. Set in a library during the war, however it's not really a war story, which didn't help it; I feel...anyhow; what I thought I'd say is I see too you are a big Victorian/Trollope fan,.. I've read the "An autobiography" but I'm not sure if I'm fully up to a big novel, in a set, so to speak. I heard the R4 adaption of the "something-farm" about the disputed codicile, that one, and I thought it might be hard going in print!..As you are a big Victorian reader perhaps you might make a recommendation to me. I read Gissing's New Grub Street and would like to follow it with one of those authors he might've been describing, like Trollope does in An Autobiography, so have you too a seldom read Victorian novel which might be recommended.

posted by armandine2 at 2:34 pm (EST) on Mar 20, 2009