Anthony Trollope est né à Londres en 181 ; et mort en 1882. Fils d’un avocat raté et d’une femme de lettres qui eut une certaine notoriété, il fit carrière comme inspecteur des postes jusqu’en 1867. Entre 1847, date de parution de son premier livre, et sa mort, il publia près de cinquante romans. , ainsi que des nouvelles, et connut une grande célébrité.

La cure de Framley

Roman traduit de l'anglais, preface et annotepar Alain JumeauLe reverend Mark Robarts, qui occupe la cure de Framley, dans le Barset, et Ludovic Lufton, lord et futur maitre du manoir de Framley, sont amis d'enfance. La mere de Ludovic, Lady Lufton, qui tient a affirmer son pouvoir social dans ce petit monde de province, a beaucoup uvre pour favoriser le mariage du jeune ecclesiastique avec Fanny Monsell, et elle se montre tout aussi determinee a voir son fils convoler avec une jeune fille digne de son rang.Par l'intermediaire de Ludovic, Mark rencontre Nathaniel Sowerby, un depute a la frequentation compromettante qui le pousse a contresigner des billets de reconnaissance de dettes. Frolant la catastrophe pour sa famille et le deshonneur pour lui-meme, Mark risque aussi de compromettre le mariage de sa s ur.Le heros - souvent fort peu heroique - de ce roman loue au XIXe siecle par Elizabeth Gaskell et Henry James est entoure de personnages feminins remarquables et attachants, qui comptent parmi les plus belles reussites de Trollope et nous rappellent la place essentielle des femmes dans son univers romanesque."

La Cure de Framley

Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well known and successful work without being guilty of any undue family conceit. That was essentially a woman's book. She saw with a woman's keen eye, and described with a woman's light but graphic pen, the social defects and absurdities which our near relatives had adopted into their domestic life. All that she told was worth the telling, and the telling, if done successfully, was sure to produce a good result. I am satisfied that it did so. But she did not regard it as a part of her work to dilate on the nature and operation of those political arrangements which had produced the social absurdities which she saw, or to explain that though such absurdities were the natural result of those arrangements in their newness, the defects would certainly pass away, while the political arrangements, if good, would remain. Such a work is fitter for a man than for a woman. I am very far from thinking that it is a task which I can perform with satisfaction either to myself or to others. It is a work which some man will do who has earned a right by education, study, and success to rank himself among the political sages of his age. But I may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subject of the United States have hitherto dealt chiefly with social details; and though in most cases true and useful, have created laughter on one side of the Atlantic, and soreness on the other. If I could do anything to mitigate the soreness, if I could in any small degree add to the good feeling which should exist between two nations which ought to love each other so well, and which do hang upon each other so constantly, I should think that I had cause to be proud of my work.

North America - (Vol.1) - USA and Canada

Aussit�t que Clara fut inform�e de la visite de son cousin, elle alla l'annoncer � son amie qui l'approuva sans r�serve. Sans doute, dit-elle, il vient voir s'il ne peut pas arranger les affaires en vous �pousant, et c'est ce qui pourrait arriver de plus heureux; � votre place je ne le laisserais pas partir avant de l'avoir vu � mes pieds, si toutefois les hommes se mettent encore dans cette posture suppliante, ce dont je doute. Clara prit fort mal la plaisanterie et y coupa court en quittant le cottage.Au jour d�sign�, Belton arriva dans un cabriolet lou� � Taunton. M. Amadroz avait affect� tout le jour la plus compl�te indiff�rence; mais, en entendant le bruit des roues, il quitta pr�cipitamment son fauteuil et s'avan�a dans le vestibule. Clara le suivit et se trouva sans savoir comment, �changeant des poign�es de main avec un grand gar�on large d'�paules, ayant de grands yeux gris brillants, le nez droit, la bouche grande, les dents presque trop parfaites, d'�pais cheveux bruns coup�s courts et de petits favoris lui venant � moiti� des joues. Clara n'avait jamais vu physionomie plus ouverte.

Le Domaine de Belton

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was a well known English novelist of the Victorian era.

Among his most successfull works is a series of novels known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolve aournd the imaginary county of Barsetshire.

His book "Christmas at Thompson Hall" was first published in 1894.

Christmas at Thompson Hall

The novel is set against the background of the Reform Bill of 1867, and focuses on an Irish Member of the British House of Commons; in it Trollope explores the relations between the distinct elements of 'the United Kingdom'. Phineas has a personal chronicle which largely dominates the political calendar and it is noteworthy that Trollope wrote Phineas Finn at the same time as Gladstone's accession to power and the momentous consequences for Ireland that followed. 
Phineas Finn (1869) is the second of the Palliser novels, published between 1864 and 1880. As a group they provide us with the most extensive and telling exposé of British life during the period of its greatest prestige.

Phineas Finn

Barchester, son calme, sa cathédrale, ses querelles religieuses. Qui va devenir évêque, être nommé doyen, bénéficier de telle charge, de tel avantage...? Paru en 1857, le roman se fait l'écho de l'actualité religieuse dominée par les grandes controverses au sein de l'Église anglicane, prise entre tradition et réformisme. Refusant dogmatisme et militantisme, Trollope s'intéresse à la comédie du pouvoir : il montre comment la conquête du pouvoir et sa conservation donnent lieu à des luttes féroces, mais surtout comiques. Il offre un roman satirique foisonnant, riche de personnages hauts en couleurs, de dialogues savoureux et d'une narration résolument moderne, où l'auteur se met en scène et interpelle le lecteur. Dans la famille des grands romanciers anglais, aux côtés de Sterne, Thackeray et Dickens, il est temps de redécouvrir Anthony Trollope.

Traduction de l'anglais par Christian Bérubé et révisé par Alain Jumeau. Édition d'Alain Jumeau.

Les tours de Barchester

It is certainly of service to a man to know who were his grandfathers and who were his grandmothers if he entertain an ambition to move in the upper circles of society, and also of service to be able to speak of them as of persons who were themselves somebodies in their time. No doubt we all entertain great respect for those who by their own energies have raised themselves in the world; and when we hear that the son of a washerwoman has become Lord Chancellor or Archbishop of Canterbury we do, theoretically and abstractedly, feel a higher reverence for such self-made magnate than for one who has been as it were born into forensic or ecclesiastical purple. But not the less must the offspring of the washerwoman have had very much trouble on the subject of his birth, unless he has been, when young as well as when old, a very great man indeed.

The Prime Minister

Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house in Welbeck Street. Lady Carbury spent many hours at her desk, and wrote many letters, -wrote also very much beside letters. She spoke of herself in these days as a woman devoted to Literature, always spelling the word with a big L. Something of the nature of her devotion may be learned by the perusal of three letters which on this morning she had written with a quickly running hand. Lady Carbury was rapid in everything, and in nothing more rapid than in the writing of letters.

La cure de Framley

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