Is there a better way to break up that quotation? Right now it doesn't
read as a complete sentence, just a series of fragments.
On 9/18/21 12:00 AM, David Grigg wrote:
> OK, I believe this is now ready for review:
>
>
https://github.com/drgrigg/anthony-trollope_doctor-thorne.git
>
> Thanks to David of Edinburgh for the link to Michael Sadleir's
> interesting book on Trollope, from which I've quoted in the long
> description.
>
> On Monday, 23 August 2021 at 20:14:34 UTC+10 David Grigg wrote:
>
> Already done!
> On 23 Aug 2021, 6:22 PM +1000, Asher Smith
> <
forlackofa...@gmail.com>, wrote:
>> Once you've added the series metadata, can you let me know so I
>> can add a link to the collection to wiki? Cheers!
>>
>> On Monday, August 23, 2021 at 8:13:02 AM UTC+1 David wrote:
>>
>> Wonderful! Trollope is a particular favourite of mine, and I
>> have a good number of favourite Trollopes, Dr Thorne among them!
>>
>> Do you know Michael Sadleir's /Commentary/ on Trollope
>> <
https://archive.org/details/texts?query=sadleir+trollope+commentary&sin=>,
>> David? (I expect so ... so this is "just in case"...!) He
>> opined, “With /Doctor Thorne/ Trollope had definitely found
>> himself...” (p. 384). Sadleir devotes several pages to /Dr
>> Thorne/. Here's how that section sets off:
>>
>> “Trollope himself, although he clung ... to his affection for
>> this book of reminiscence [/The Three Clerks/], must during
>> 1857 have had a vision of his real writer’s destiny. How
>> otherwise may be explained the sensational perfection of /Dr
>> Thorne/, one of the five (in a technical sense) faultless
>> books he was to write? In nearly every novel—even in novels so
>> outstanding as /The Small House at Allington/, /The Last
>> Chronicle of Barset/, the two chronicles of Phineas Finn, /He
>> Knew He Was Right/, /The Eustace Diamonds/, /The Vicar of
>> Bullhampton/, /The Way We Live Now/ and /Mr. Scarborough’s
>> Family/—it is impossible not to deplore a sub-plot or an
>> exaggeration, a long-windedness or a more than normally
>> aggressive repetition. But in five books—/Doctor Thorne/, /The
>> Belton Estate/, /The Claverings/, /Sir Harry Hotspur of
>> Humblethwaite/ and /Dr. Wortle’s School/—though there may be
>> an extreme of tranquillity there is not a loose end, not a
>> patch of drowsiness, not a moment of false proportion.” (pp.
>> 374ff.
>> <
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.522911/page/n401/mode/2up>)
>>
>> ... and it goes on from there. :) Anyway, hope you'll enjoy
>> preparing this one! If ever I get stuck into Standard Ebook
>> production, it will be with further Trollopes in mind at some
>> point. There's certainly plenty to choose from!
>>
>> David [Edinburgh, UK]
>>
>> On Monday, 23 August 2021 at 02:16:19 UTC+1
david...@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>
>> This is the next in Trollope's series of the "Barchester
>> Chronicles", following /The Warden/ and /Barchester
>> Towers/, which we've already produced.
>>
>> So I thought I would tackle it next (hopefully taking a
>> good deal less time than /Little Dorrit/.)
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