The Kellys and the O'Kellys, by Anthony Trollope
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The Kellys and the O'Kellys, by Anthony Trollope- Published on: 2015-11-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .73" w x 8.50" l, 1.64 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 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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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. A great book for Trollope lovers By J. Smiley Anthony Trollope wrote this book in Ireland, when he was working there for the English Post Office. It was his second book, and it shows that he knew how to write a social comedy from the beginning. The characters are beautifully drawn, and the dilemmas are, of course, utterly mundane and utterly dramatic. A piece of property goes to a plain but decent woman, which raises her value in the marriage market.Her brother resents her. Will he become violent, or is he just a hapless drunk? Another man, who has a large property, puts it in jeopardy by owning race horses--but his trainer is the wisest man he knows (which doesn't mean his horses always win). This is a jewel, written in Trollope's characteristic smooth but pointed style. No one in England was interested in the Irish when it came out (1848), and it sold about fifty copies. It has always been outshone by his later works. I believe he was thirty-two when he wrote it. But it is wise, entertaining and full of those sort of moral riddles we love Trollope for exploring.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. One of Trollope's great villains can be found in this novel. By Russell Fanelli The Kelly's and the O'Kelly's is the 23rd novel by Anthony Trollope I have read. I had just finished the Macdermots of Ballycloran, his first novel, written in 1847 and decided that I would read his second novel, The Kelly's... written in 1848. Both stories are set in Ireland where Trollope worked as a young man for the English Post Office.What I think is most noteworthy about The Kelly's... is the villain, Barry Lynch. Of all the many novels of Trollope I have read, Barry is by far the most evil and despicable person he has created. From our very first introduction to Barry to the end of the novel, he is hated and despised by all who know him, and for good reason. He is a selfish, self-centered man who will lie, cheat, steal, and even do murder to get what he wants. No spoilers here - Trollope takes us aside early in his novel and describes Barry's character in some detail. We know what to expect and we are not disappointed. Just as the villain Uriah Heep in David Copperfield adds dramatic conflict to that wonderful novel by Charles Dickens, so does Barry Lynch energize the plot in The Kelly's and the O'Kelly's.As mentioned earlier, the novel is set in Ireland and Trollope provides much local color as he tells the story of Martin Kelly and the woman he wants to marry, Anty Lynch, Barry's sister, and then Fanny Wyndham and her fiancé Lord Ballindine, Frank O'Kelly. Barry Lynch does everything possible to prevent the marriage of his sister Anty to Martin Kelly and Lord Cashel, Fanny's uncle, tries his best to keep Fanny from marrying Frank O'Kelly. Barry and Lord Cashel want Anty and Fanny's money for themselves.The Kelly's and the O'Kelly's is typical of the many novels Trollope will write about love lost and won. What makes Trollope special and why I keep coming back for more is his ability to involve us in his story and make us care about his characters and what will happen to them. Trollope is a reader's best friend. He frequently takes us into his confidence and talks to us about his characters and their problems. He is a wise observer who is skilled in describing what he sees. As readers we enter the world he has created for us and experience the story as if we were there. To be able to lose ourselves for a time in a strange new world is certainly one of the joys of reading and few are able to make this possible better than the master, Anthony Trollope.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An entertaining Irish story By Meredith/Susan The Kellys and the O'Kellys, Trollope's second novel, is one of his most entertaining and humorous, just as his first, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, is possibly his bleakest and most tragic. Most of his later novels contain both light and dark, not necessarily in equal measures, but in some degree so as to balance and complement each other. There is darkness in this one as well, but we never feel there is danger that it will ultimately prevail.The plot here is a double one, with many similarities and some contrasts between the two parallel stories, set in the period just before the Great Famine. Two good-natured young Irish men of different stations in life, Protestant aristocrat Frank O'Kelly (Lord Ballindine) and middle-class Catholic farmer Martin Kelly, are landlord and tenant, distant cousins and friends, helping each other out in various ways. Both consider themselves happily engaged to young ladies who are conveniently heiresses, but both have problems insofar as arranging to get these ladies to the actual altar. Martin is cautious, responsible and ambitious, while Frank is easy-going, fond of his hounds and horses, and prone to overspending his income. The ladies involved, Anty and Fanny, have expressed their willingness to wed, but both have relatives with other fates in mind for them.Anty (Anastasia) has a brother who is furious with their deceased father for having left a will dividing his wealth between his two children, instead of making his son the sole heir as expected. Anty, the Catholic daughter of a long-dead Catholic mother, has led a sort of Cinderella existence, treated as a servant by her brutish father and selfish brother, both Protestants. When the brother hears that she is thinking of marrying, he is desperate to seize her share of the inheritance for himself; he plots to have her declared insane, and fantasizes about, then threatens murder. Fanny, on the other hand, is in no danger of being murdered, though her rich guardian would have few qualms about throwing her along with her substantial inheritance into the maelstrom of debt owed by his own son and heir; with that purpose in mind he seeks to separate her from her fiancé.The entire society of counties Mayo and Galway becomes involved in these dilemmas, on one side or another. There are lawyers, doctors, priests, parsons, horse trainers, fox hunters, and fools, every one offering his personal opinion and bit of advice, as well as mothers, sisters and housemaids eager to influence the course of events. Particularly vivid are the formidable innkeeper Mrs. Kelly, on the good side, and on the other side, Barry Lynch, Eton-educated son of a crooked land agent, possibly the most absolutely evil character Trollope ever created, with barely invisible horns and hooves to complement his red face and wild eyes.This story is so lively and dramatic that it positively cries out for attention from the BBC or some other worthy producer. Of all Trollope's novels this one has by far the most specific and pervading elements of local color. Trollope's English settings can have a somewhat generalized feel, idyllic countryside or cut-throat urban jungle. But here everything reflects his own involvement with and observation of particular places and people with whom he was in daily contact, as he traveled around Ireland trying to make mail delivery more efficient. The written conversation here is brilliant as always, but with the added delight of colorful and picturesque Irish expressions and speech patterns, reflecting the author's careful listening, never exaggerated or falling into parody or stereotype.Despite its status as a very early work, only the second of 47 novels, this is quintessential Trollope, featuring character types, situations, attitudes and moral dilemmas which will recur again and again in various relationships and configurations throughout his entire oeuvre. This novel would be a great place for a new Trollope reader to begin.
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