The Macdermots of Ballycloran, by Anthony Trollope
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The Macdermots of Ballycloran, by Anthony Trollope- Published on: 2015-11-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.69" h x .83" w x 7.44" l, 1.44 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 366 pages
About the Author Anthony Trollope was a Victorian-era English author best known for his satirical novel The Way We Live Now, a criticism of the greed and immorality he witnessed living in London. Trollope was employed as a postal surveyor in Ireland when he began to take up writing as a serious pursuit, publishing four novels on Irish subjects during his years there. In 1851 Trollope was travelling the English countryside for work when was inspired with the plot for The Warden, the first of six novels in what would become his famous The Chronicles of Barsetshire series. Trollope eventually settled in London and over the next thirty years published a prodigious body of work, including Barsetshire novels such as Barchester Towers and Doctor Thorne, as well as numerous other novels and short stories. Trollope died in London 1882 at the age of 67.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful. First novel a success By Bomojaz Anthony Trollope's first novel, and a good one. Set in Ireland in the 1830s, it tells the story of a proud but destitute family and their tragic downfall at the hands of a scoundrel. Myles Ussher is an English police captain sent to Ireland to help stop illegal whiskey making. Feemy Macdermot falls deeply in love with him, though he has no intention of returning that love. The locals hate him, and Feemy's brother Thady, when he learns of Ussher's merely using Feemy, kills him in a rage when he believes Ussher is abducting her against her will (they are actually eloping). A trial ensues and after some exciting intervals involving escapes, Thady is convicted and hanged.Trollope offers a sympathetic look at Ireland's troubles during this time period; indeed the "innocent" Feemy might symbolically represent that country while the unfeeling, spiteful Ussher is England. Trollope had spent a good deal of time in Ireland and knew the country and the people well; his use of Irish dialogue is natural and realistic. The trial scene is pretty exciting, and Trollope's broad humor is already clearly evident. The use of the dilapidated Macdermot mansion as the starting and ending point, with the main plot sandwiched inbetween as flashback, gives the novel a cinematic touch. The author would achieve greater novels as his career progressed, but this initial production highlights an auspicious start.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. What a debut! By R. M. Peterson This was the first of the forty-seven novels that Anthony Trollope wrote. He was nearly thirty when he began writing it. He later claimed that never before had he "put pen to paper". That is hard to believe. THE MACDERMOTS OF BALLYCLORAN is not perfect -- there are minor structural problems and some repetition -- but it reads like the work of a thoroughly accomplished novelist. At the same time, while it employs many of the stylistic tropes and conventions of the Victorian Era, it does not strike the modern reader as something published way back in 1842. It is fresher, more modern, than Dickens.THE MACDERMOTS OF BALLYCLORAN is set in rural Ireland in the 1830's. It is a perceptive portrayal of Irish life and society in the decade before the potato disease and the Great Hunger. Trollope is sympathetic to the native Irish, whether Protestant or Catholic. (The ecumenical spirit of the novel is remarkable.) The eponymous Macdermots are rural gentry, striving to maintain their social status on a small estate with tenant farmers who cannot pay their rents, some of whom take to making and drinking potheen (illegally distilled spirits) for a smidgen of cash and the solace it brings. Bullying both the small gentry and the tenant farmers are the representatives of the Crown (such as the revenue police charged with shutting down the distillation of potheen) and the wealthy mercantilists. Their oppressive conduct gives rise to the secret society of the Ribbonmen, who are sworn to oust their subjugators. The tides of agitation and apprehension end up swamping many innocent people. In many respects, the novel is a tale of the mischiefs of British colonialism of Ireland.There is plenty of action, including a duel, a brother killing his sister's suitor whom he believed to be abducting her for immoral purposes, the mutilation of an overly zealous landlord, and a murder trial. (As a retired trial lawyer, I thought the account of that trial, which takes up roughly the last fifth of the novel, marvelously well done; Trollope had in him the makings of a superb barrister.) There are finely wrought characters, of which the most memorable are Thady Macdermot and the local priest John McGrath. There are several wonderful set pieces. Trollope displays his fine ear for dialect and his sophisticated way with dialogue. Gentle humor bubbles along through stretches of the book. In the end, though, THE MACDERMOTS OF BALLYCLORAN is a sad, melancholy tale.P.S.: The copy I read is a handsome hardcover edition from The Folio Society, published in 1991. I am confident that the paperback editions published by Penguin Books and by Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics) are very satisfactory, although they may be out of print and available only via used book dealers. Judging from Amazon's "Look Inside" feature, the edition published by CreateSpace has a horribly compressed layout and cannot be recommended except to the masochistic.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Trollope's Debut Novel is filled with passion and violence! Not what I expected! By Steve Forsyth Several years (and novels) before Trollope struck gold with THE WARDEN and the Barsetshire novels, he debuted with this account of a poverty stricken Irish landlord and his attempts to hold on to his estate and navigate the violent and seamy world or pre-famine Ireland. Thady Macdermot is the son of an Irish landowner who begins the novel trying to get payment from his various tenants and stave off a persistent creditor, while his mostly insane father increasingly accuses him of trying to sabotage his ownership of their estate, and his unsupervised young sister carries on a sexual liaison with a local police officer. As the story unfolds, we are introduced to several of the local tenants, who all have it in for this officer because of his constant raids on their illegal alcohol production, and are trying to enlist Thady's hesitant aid in "ridding the country of him." Meanwhile, a parish priest, Father John, is actively working to keep Thady on the righteous path, and trying also to figure out how to separate Thady's sister, Feemy, from the illicit affair she has fallen into. Eventually the many conflicts erupt into an act of murder, and the final third of the novel follows the trial of the guilty party, including an in-depth analysis of the legal ramifications, as Trollope so loved to unfold.Down to its final grim death, the novel is one of squalor and depression. It is, however, to the author's great credit that even in dealing with such dark subject matter, he is able to infuse scenes of humor and liveliness throughout. If this is an impoverished people, they are still filled with life, and endeavor to live those lives and take joy in whatever they can. Be it a horse race, or the betting party preceding it - be it a local wedding - or just sitting on the porch imbibing illegal moonshine, these are characters as real as you and I. Trollope's great strength has always been in creating relatable characters with realistic dialogue, and his debut shows this was a natural talent!His descriptions of the land, its people, its homes, and its lifestyles come alive, aided by his many years spent living among them. It is noted that Trollope has not here written an English novel about the Irish, but has in fact written an Irish novel. As such, readers of his tamer and more socially acceptable novels may be shocked by the language, sexual themes, and violence on display here (including murders, hangings, and one shocking and graphically described hobbling). These are not English dames and gentlemen working within social norms to achieve love or prosperity ... these are people of the earth, sweating, fighting, and scheming to survive each day - yet described with passion and affection.The Worlds Classic edition features three deleted chapters, which help to elaborate on the legalities of the court case, and add a coda to the lives of the various characters. I found these interesting, but also felt they were wisely cut, particularly the final chapter - ending with the death, while tragic, has much more dramatic punch than tacking on a bunch of "here's what happened to this guy" narration.The edition also features an introductory essay that explores a little more in-depth the larger political ramifications of the novel, detailing how the characters of Feemy and her policeman lover, Ussher, echo the plight between England and Ireland of the day - of course I cannot go into depth here without giving much away, but suffice to say the parallels are quite interesting.In the end, have no doubt, this is a tragic novel - but Trollope's mastery of the Irish dialect and characterizations, as well as his trademark wit, make this vastly readable - quote an astonishing debut, even if the English readers of his day didn't appreciate it.
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