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Castle Richmond, by Anthony Trollope
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Title: Castle Richmond
Author: Anthony Trollope
Release Date: September 18, 2002 [eBook #5897] Most recently updated: June 19, 2010
Language: English
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CASTLE RICHMOND
by
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
With an Introduction by Algar Thorold
London & New York: MCMVI
INTRODUCTION
"Castle Richmond" was written in 1861, long after Trollope had left Ireland. The characterization is weak, and the plot, although the author himself thought well of it, mechanical.
The value of the story is rather documentary than literary. It contains several graphic scenes descriptive of the great Irish famine. Trollope observed carefully, and on the whole impartially, though his powers of discrimination were not quite fine enough to make him an ideal annalist.
Still, such as they were, he has used them here with no inconsiderable effect. His desire to be fair has led him to lay stress in an inverse ratio to his prepossessions, and his Priest is a better man than h