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The Claverings
章节(48)
- I: Julia Brabazon 0:00
- II: Harry Clavering Chooses His Profession 19:24
- III: Lord Ongar 52:16
- IV: Florence Burton 1:17:11
- V: Lady Ongar’s Return 1:43:57
- VI: The Rev. Samuel Saul 2:10:32
- VII: Some Scenes in the Life of a Countess 2:35:17
- VIII: The House in Onslow Crescent 3:04:35
- IX: Too Prudent by Half 3:30:49
- X: Florence Burton at the Rectory 3:55:17
- XI: Sir Hugh and His Brother Archie 4:21:25
- XII: Lady Ongar Takes Possession 4:53:55
- XIII: A Visitor Calls at Ongar Park 5:13:27
- XIV: Count Pateroff and His Sister 5:32:55
- XV: An Evening in Bolton Street 5:59:34
- XVI: The Rivals 6:33:19
- XVII: “Let Her Know That You’re There” 7:01:14
- XVIII: Captain Clavering Makes His First Attempt 7:25:08
- XIX: The Blue Posts 7:54:03
- XX: Desolation 8:21:23
- XXI: Yes; Wrong;—Certainly Wrong 8:49:01
- XXII: The Day of the Funeral 9:15:16
- XXIII: Cumberly Lane Without the Mud 9:42:08
- XXIV: The Russian Spy 10:02:01
- XXV: “What Would Men Say of You?” 10:36:02
- XXVI: The Man Who Dusted His Boots with His Handkerchief 11:03:49
- XXVII: Freshwater Gate 11:27:28
- XXVIII: What Cecilia Burton Did for Her Sister-in-Law 11:57:11
- XXIX: How Damon Parted from Pythias 12:29:35
- XXX: Doodles in Mount Street 12:49:42
- XXXI: Harry Clavering’s Confession 13:17:40
- XXXII: Florence Burton Packs Up a Packet 13:40:41
- XXXIII: Showing Why Harry Clavering Was Wanted at the Rectory 14:08:44
- XXXIV: Mr. Saul’s Abode 14:38:06
- XXXV: Parting 15:03:38
- XXXVI: Captain Clavering Makes His Last Attempt 15:31:14
- XXXVII: What Lady Ongar Thought About It 15:55:50
- XXXVIII: How to Dispose of a Wife 16:23:21
- XXXIX: Farewell to Doodles 16:42:22
- XL: Showing How Mrs. Burton Fought Her Battle 17:15:13
- XLI: The Sheep Returns to the Fold 17:37:43
- XLII: Restitution 18:04:54
- XLIII: Lady Ongar’s Revenge 18:32:45
- XLIV: Showing What Happened Off Heligoland 18:55:41
- XLV: Is She Mad? 19:28:53
- XLVI: Madame Gordeloup Retires from British Diplomacy 19:53:02
- XLVII: Showing How Things Settled Themselves at the Rectory 20:22:36
- XLVIII: Conclusion 20:53:25
Harry Clavering is an able, ambitious, and attractive young man, son of a country vicar and cousin to a baronet. His love for the baronet’s beautiful sister-in-law is at first reciprocated, but then rebuffed as her own ambitions incline her towards marrying a wealthy but personally repellent earl. Harry licks his wounds, and seeks to make his own fortune by training for a career as a civil engineer.
While in the home of his new patrons, he meets the daughter of the head of his firm, a new love flourishes, and they become engaged. But the earl dies, and the widow, Harry’s first love, is now free—and also wealthy. Unaware of his new attachment, she seeks help from Harry, wondering whether the spark between them can be rekindled. It now transpires that Harry is also “fickle, vain, easily led, and almost as easily led to evil as to good.”
Like Trollope’s Phineas Finn, The Claverings includes strong and fully realized female characters. Lady Julia Ongar is the outstanding example here, the seemingly mercenary femme fatale whose conflicting choices, hopes, and spiritual struggles are so acutely portrayed that they prevent her from simply being a stereotypical predator.
Written between the last two Barchester books, The Claverings is among the very few other of Trollope’s works set in Barsetshire. The setting remains a subtle touch here: Harry’s clergyman father is annoyed by Bishop Proudie, the notorious prelate of the later Barchester series.
The Trollope scholar Michael Sadleir grouped The Claverings, along with Doctor Thorne and Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite, as Trollope’s “three faultless books.” Of The Claverings itself, he found it “as surely conceived as any book [Trollope] ever wrote,” marked by “qualities of sure-footed subtlety,” especially in the many and varied acute social observations it contains—from the most intimate and intense private dramas, to more awkward and even amusing public encounters. Like many of Trollope’s books, The Claverings is “not only readable, but perpetually re-readable.”