The Landleaguers


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(4.2 stars; 13 reviews)

Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land by the Catholic Landleaguers. The Irish Land War has commenced, with the boycotting of wealthy landowners and a brutal chain of revenge killings. This is the story of Florian, his father, his two beautiful sisters, his adult brother Frank, and Frank’s beloved Rachel, an American singer working the London stage with her firebrand father. It’s also the story of the social order coming apart and then painfully coming back together in one Irish county. The Landleaguers was Anthony Trollope’s last book and was not completed before he died in 1882, but proceeds far enough to be a touching and engrossing story and to leave the reader pretty certain of the outcome. - Summary by Angie (11 hr 53 min)

Chapitres

Mr. Jones of Castle Morony 18:44 Lu par Angel5
The Man in the Mask 16:16 Lu par Angel5
Father Brosnan 17:05 Lu par Angel5
Mr. Blake of Carnlough 11:49 Lu par Angel5
Mr. O'Mahoney and His Daughter 15:37 Lu par Angel5
Rachel and Her Lovers 14:36 Lu par Angel5
Brown's 18:51 Lu par Angel5
Christmas Day 1880 9:29 Lu par Angel5
Black Daly 17:42 Lu par Angel5
Ballytowngal 10:42 Lu par Angel5
Moytubber 14:20 Lu par Angel5
'Don't Hate Him, Ada' 12:29 Lu par Angel5
Edith's Eloquence 10:21 Lu par Angel5
Rachel's Correspondence 13:58 Lu par Angel5
Captain Yorke Clayton 15:39 Lu par Angel5
Captain Clayton Comes to the Castle 14:34 Lu par Angel5
Rachel is Free 12:25 Lu par Angel5
Frank Jones Has Ceased to Exist 20:22 Lu par Angel5
Fifth Avenue and Newport 10:23 Lu par Angel5
Boycotting 15:10 Lu par Angel5
Lax, the Murderer 12:48 Lu par Angel5
Morony Castle is Boycotted 13:27 Lu par Angel5
Tom Daly is Boycotted 12:01 Lu par Angel5
'From the Full Heart, the Mouth Speaks' 18:08 Lu par Angel5
The Galway Ball 13:03 Lu par Angel5
Lord Castlewell 19:20 Lu par Angel5
How Funds Were Provided 16:04 Lu par Angel5
What Was Not Done With the Funds 14:12 Lu par Angel5
What Was Done With the Funds 18:38 Lu par Angel5
The Road to Ballyglunin 13:47 Lu par Angel5
The Galway Court House 13:22 Lu par Angel5
Mr. O'Mahoney as Member of Parliament 14:30 Lu par Angel5
Captain Clayton's Lovemaking 11:53 Lu par Angel5
Lord Castlewell's Lovemaking 18:10 Lu par Angel5
Mr. O'Mahoney's Apology 18:36 Lu par Angel5
Rachel Writes About Her Lovers 11:21 Lu par Angel5
Rachel Is Ill 14:44 Lu par Angel5
Lord Castlewell is Much Troubled 14:30 Lu par Angel5
Captain Clayton's First Triumph 17:25 Lu par Angel5
Rachel Writes About Her Lovers 10:50 Lu par Angel5
The State of Ireland 23:31 Lu par Angel5
Lord Castlewell's Farewell 11:49 Lu par Angel5
Mr. Moss Is Finally Answered 12:50 Lu par Angel5
Frank Jones Comes Back Again 13:22 Lu par Angel5
Mr. Robert Morrise 15:29 Lu par Angel5
Cong 15:00 Lu par Angel5
Kerrycullion 14:05 Lu par Angel5
The New Aristocracy Fails 11:41 Lu par Angel5
Chapter 49 and Postscript 8:40 Lu par Angel5

Critiques

Well read; sad it wasn't finished


(4 stars)

Trollope wasn't able to complete this book, but what he did leave us was enough to thoroughly enjoy. The postscript at the end tells his intentions for the main characters, but it can pretty well be guessed at. The reader was very good. She does the Irish, British, and American accents, to my ears, equally well. There are some technical blips in the recordings - places where the microphone was rubbed or something - statics and distortions of that sort - but they don't last very long, so it's not too hard to dismiss them.

Great reader; great story


(5 stars)

Great reader; great story. Set me running to the history books and Wikipedia.