{"product_id":"orley-farm-9780198803744","title":"Orley Farm","description":"Trollope singled out \u003cem\u003eOrley Farm\u003c\/em\u003e for its successful combination of realistic and sensational effects which he felt to be the highest achievement of the novelist. It was greatly admired by his contemporaries, including George Eliot and G. H. Lewes. The novel centers on a case of forgery and the anguish, guilt, and pathos of the central character, Lady Mason. Youthful marriage choices, middle-aged martial crisis, and the moving love and loss of an elderly man revolve around the legal action and the complex portrayal of Lady Mason, who is both sympathetic and wily. The novel proposes a standard of morality higher than that embodied in the practice of an English court of law. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith its concern for social issues and its extensive coverage of middle-class and landed life, \u003cem\u003eOrley Farm\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel that demands attention in the rich field of nineteenth-century fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancis O'Gorman\u003c\/strong\u003e has edited Anthony Trollope's \u003cem\u003eThe Duke's Children, Framley Parsonage\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Way We Live Now\u003c\/em\u003e for the Oxford World's Classics series, as well as John Ruskin's \u003cem\u003ePraeterita\u003c\/em\u003e and Elizabeth Gaskell's \u003cem\u003eSylvia's Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e. He has written widely on English literature, mostly from the nineteenth century, and his recent publications include \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), the Twenty-first Century Oxford Authors edition of \u003cem\u003eAlgernon Charles Swinburne\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), and volume 5 of the \u003cem\u003eOxford Selected Prose of Edward Thomas\u003c\/em\u003e on Thomas's literary criticism (2017). Francis O'Gorman, who was educated at the University of Oxford, is Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and is currently editing Wilkie Collins' \u003cem\u003eThe Moonstone\u003c\/em\u003e for OUP and writing a book for Bloomsbury called \u003cem\u003eThe Limits of Liberalism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900444053778,"sku":"9780198803744","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e28ba227-e824-4c37-9b22-31daf7fc4b18.jpg?v=1738382671","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/orley-farm-9780198803744","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}