[Barset]

"The Way We Live Now" is one of my husbands favorite Trollope novels outside the Pallisers and the church novels,
perhaps because of the BCCI scandal. We re-read the novels and I can't think of any he dislikes to the point of not speaking of the characters with fondness, or of being disinclined to meet them again, even those whose sufferings from their own monomania are distressingly poignant, as in "He Knew He Was Right."

I have never heard of "The Fixed Period" but if it comes to hand I shall certainly read it. Thank you for mentioning it.

I worry that in our enthusiasm for Trollope we may have contributed to the thread losing its focus and discouraging more interesting posts. I hope not.

[AnAmericanMother]

Since the topic of the thread is literary comparisons to John Obadiah/LouisXI/Blackadder Kerry, I think we're pretty safe.

Trevelyan in "He Knew He Was Right" is crazy as hell, but your husband is correct, in a strange way he IS sympathetic. That's the way I feel about Mr. Crawley. The scene where he - in the midst of abject poverty and actual starvation - is teaching his younger daughter Greek verbs . . . "poor but proud" to the nth degree.