Wednesday, September 04, 2019

Creativity in a Short Time Period

And this is only a partial listing of Trollope's novels in that time period:
  • 1840: The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
  • 1844: The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • 1846: Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
  • 1847: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • 1851: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • 1855: Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
  • 1855: The Warden by Anthony Trollope
  • 1857: Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
  • 1858: Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
  • 1859: On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • 1860: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • 1861: Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
  • 1865: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • 1866: The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
  • 1867: Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
  • 1868: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
  • 1869: Suez Canal opened
  • 1871: Middlemarch by George Eliot
  • 1874: Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  • 1874: The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
  • 1875: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
  • 1876: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • 1877: The American by Henry James
  • 1878: The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
  • 1881: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

4 comments:

Texas Leigh said...

Nowdays I rarely read fiction, but thanks to school and college, I've read a majority of these books, except Trollope. Because of your recommendation, I read Trollope's The Warden. I repeat: I have read Trollope's The Warden. Whew. It was a slog and I don't plan on returning to Barchester any time soon. The best thing about his writing was all the wonderful, new-to-me words from that time period. So thanks for that. My next read will be a bio of James Madison, once I find the most highly recommended one.

Michael Wade said...

Texas Leigh,

You may be amused that I've been seriously considering re-reading "The Warden."

Don't give up on Trollope! One of the lighter and more humorous Trollope books is "Barchester Towers." Alan Rickman played the villain (Obediah Slope) in a BBC version.

Trollope's "The Way We Live Now" was also turned into a BBC series.

Let me know if you find a biography of James Madison that you like.

Best,

Michael

Texas Leigh said...

You played the Alan Rickman card! Of course he would play Slope (formerly Slop). Of course I'll proceed to visit Barchester Towers on your recommendation so I can picture Rickman as I read. He is still my favorite actor gone too soon. What's your favorite Alan Rickman movie? I'll let you know the outcome of my Madison bio search and read.

Michael Wade said...

Texas Leigh,

Alan Rickman was always better than his films. Based on your recommendation I watched and enjoyed the film he made with Tom Selleck but, of course, he was the main virtue of that film. He was great in all of the Potter films and he's the real reason why people watch "Die Hard."

Oddly enough, aside from the Potter movies, I remember him most for the great portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in "Robin Hood." He had some marvelous lines in that film; e,g, "At least I didn't use a spoon."

You're right: he left us much too early.

Michael