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來源于《圖書與藝術》版塊
Trollope’s world
特羅洛普的世界
The way to live now
現在的生活方式
Discover the king of Victorian box sets
發現維多利亞套裝系列之王
Anthony trollope’s novels are almost custom-made for prolonged confinement. There are a lot of them—47 in all, divided up between single-hits (“The Way We Live Now”) and “box sets”, such as the six parliamentary books and six clerical ones. And they are utterly addictive: pacier than Dickens and with a wider variety of characters than Austen. Timothy West’s superb audio versions of the best-known means you can listen to them while cooking or walking (if you are allowed out).
安東尼·特羅洛普的小說幾乎都是為長期監禁量身定做的。有很多這樣的書——總共47本，分為單本暢銷書(《我們現在的生活方式》)和盒裝書(如六本議會書籍和六本牧師書籍)。而且這些書完全會讓人上癮：比狄更斯的節奏還快，人物比奧斯汀還多。蒂莫西·韋斯特最著名的版本的超棒音頻版本，意味著你可以在做飯或走路的時候聽(如果你被允許外出的話)。
Trollope is sometimes considered a niche author for greying Anglophiles. He wrote about quintessentially British institutions such as the Houses of Parliament and the Church of England. He lived in the high Victorian era when women and servants knew their places and men wore gigantic beards. Don’t be put off: his appeal transcends his time and class. The lead singer of the Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, wrote the song “Can You Forgive Her?” after reading Trollope’s novel of the same name.
特羅洛普有時被認為是一位專為親英老年人士寫的小眾作家。他描寫了典型的英國制度，如議會大廈和英國國教。他生活在維多利亞時代的鼎盛時期，那時女人和仆人都知道自己的位置，男人都留著大胡子。不要推遲：他的魅力超越了其時代和階層。“寵物店男孩”樂隊的主唱尼爾·泰納讀過特羅洛普的同名小說后，寫了《你能原諒她嗎》這首歌。
His greatest theme is an eternal one: the lust for power and prestige, and the way it colours and warps human affairs. This theme dominates his ecclesiastical and parliamentary novels alike; it involves his female characters just as much as his men. Arguably, the most accomplished politician in his books is a woman, Lady Glencora Palliser, who brilliantly proves that, whatever the technical rules of the franchise, the dinner table was as much a centre of power as the Cabinet table.
他最偉大的主題是永恒的：對權力和威望的渴望，以及對人類事務的渲染和扭曲。這一主題支配著他的教會小說和議會小說；涉及的女性角色和男性角色一樣多。可以說，在他的書中最有成就的政治家是一位女性，格倫科拉•帕利瑟夫人出色地證明了，無論這個系列的技術規則是什么，餐桌與內閣餐桌一樣，都是權力的中心。
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