Ralph the Heir, by Anthony Trollope
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Ralph the Heir, by Anthony Trollope
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There are men who cannot communicate themselves to others, as there are also men who not only can do so, but cannot do otherwise. And it is hard to say which is the better man of the two. We do not specially respect him who wears his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at, who carries a crystal window to his bosom so that all can see the work that is going on within it, who cannot keep any affair of his own private, who gushes out in love and friendship to every chance acquaintance; but then, again, there is but little love given to him who is always wary, always silent as to his own belongings, who buttons himself in a suit of close reserve which he never loosens. Respect such a one may gain, but hardly love. It is natural to us to like to know the affairs of our friends; and natural also, I think, to like to talk of our own to those whom we trust. Perhaps, after all that may be said of the weakness of the gushing and indiscreet babbler, it is pleasanter to live with such a one than with the self-constrained reticent man of iron, whose conversation among his most intimate friends is solely of politics, of science, of literature, or of some other subject equally outside the privacies of our inner life.
Ralph the Heir, by Anthony Trollope - Amazon Sales Rank: #6202965 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .43" w x 8.50" l, .99 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 188 pages
Ralph the Heir, by Anthony Trollope From the Back Cover This novel tells a story of crossed inheritance. One Ralph Newton, a handsome ne'er-do-well, has the expectation of the family property. His cousin (also Ralph Newton) is a wholly worthy fellow, but a bastard and may not by law inherit what his father desperately wants to bequeath him. This situation provides Trollope with the occasion for a profound analysis of moral worth and legal right. It is a novel of Trollope's maturity, featuring the darker hues and confident social criticism of his late phase together with streaks of broad comedy.
About the Author As young adult, Trollope endured seven years of poverty in the General Post Office in London before accepting a better-paying position as postal surveyor in Banagher, Ireland in 1841. The years in Ireland formed the basis of his second career delineating clerical life in small cathedral towns.
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46 of 48 people found the following review helpful. Trollope shines as portraitist, moralist, amiable cynic By Erica Ralph The Heir, written late in Antony Trollope's life, is not as well known as his Palliser or Barchester novels, and this is a great shame. To my mind his talents are on display here in all their mature glory; his penetrating observation of human motive and weakness, combined with a raucous, convaluted storyline and a wicked sense of humor. Trollope knows people through and through, and it is no small thing that he refuses here to make even his villain a monster. In true Trollope form, Ralph who is the heir (there are two Ralphs and two heirs) is in embarrased circumstances. Having spent a rather idle life waiting for his uncle to die so that he might inherit (and with the old squire hale at sixty, this will not likely happen soon), Ralph finds himself in debt up to his eyeballs...or perhaps his hand-tooled hunting boots. With a stable of hunters and a fierce riding breeches habit, Ralph must do something, but what? Just what Ralph does, and how it touches the whole pantheon within his circle (and a few decidedly outside it!) gently underlines Trollope's deep concerns for his time: just what is a gentleman? What, indeed, is nobility in man and woman? And how are we so often willfully blinkered by love, loyalty, ambition, and hate? There are several storylines in Ralph The Heir, and the author does not disappoint those who delight in watching him tie all these delicious tales together in almost Seinfeldian fashion. Parliament figures prominently and the election (or rather the attempt at an election) of a principal character is so marvelously portrayed, so wicked, it alone is worth the price of the book. Trollope is a gem. Gentle, kindly in his characters, he truly loves people and when he laughs at them, I rather think he is laughing also at himself. Enjoy this; it's one of Trollope's best.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Late Trollop By Harold Kaplan The laws on entail prevent Squire Newton from leaving his estate to his illegitimate son Ralph. The rightful heir is the squire's nephew, also Ralph, a charming but callous young man whose only talent is accumulating debt. Can the squire circumvent the law and leave the property to Ralph the noble rather than to Ralph the wastrel? This is late Trollope and contains some of his best writing. The secondary characters are superb, especially Ontario Moggs, Friend of the Working Class, and Mr. Neefit, who is determined at almost any cost to see his daughter Polly a "lady". The political chapters are among Trollope's best writing, far superior to the politics described in his earlier Palliser novels. Much of the novel is a convincing portrait of empty-headed, time-wasting Ralph, who as Trollope points out is a rather odd choice for "hero". There is also a fascinating gallery of rogues with whom Ralphs hangs out. The problem with this novel is that the good, genteel heroines -- Patience, Clarissa, Mary-- are lifeless and boring. As Trollope says, men may act but women must "sit and wait". Unfortunately noble women sitting and thinking noble thoughts and waiting for something good to happen, makes for less than exciting reading. By contrast, Polly Neefit shows considerable good sense, courage, pluck, but she is a tradesman's daughter, not a lady and therefore need not be genteel. A great read, but move quickly through the dry patches.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Moggs the Hero By Ricardo JM 'Moggs, Purity and the Rights of Labour' — this motto was painted on the board above the entrance of the inn where Ontario Moggs sets up his residence for the election period in the borough of Percycross. While the novel revolves around Ralph Newton, the title character, whose fancy shifts quite promptly from one lass to another in consonance with that of "Phineas Finn", the background story of Ontario's political career and pursuit of Polly Neefit enthralled me too; nay, the whole romance genre should be re-defined and forged after this tale. As explained in chapter VIII, 'It was the glory of Ontario Moggs to be a politician;—it was his ambition to be a poet;—it was his nature to be a lover;—it was his disgrace to be a bootmaker', therefore he clashes with his father, for the radical beliefs Ontario stands up for could ruin the lucrative business he had intended his son to carry on. And further dissension arises between the breeches-maker Mr. Neefit and his daughter Polly, whom he's bent upon marrying to Ralph (presumed to be rich, although Ralph has borrowed and failed to repay large sums of money from Mr. Neefit as well as from Mr. Moggs senior), notwithstanding how much she despises her father's snobbishness and endeavours to attain this object (he wishes to raise her to the rank of a lady by harrassing and embarrassing Ralph into taking her for his wife as they had accorded, even after Polly has refused him twice already). Nevertheless, Mr. Neefit's obsession that Polly should not degrade herself by falling for a tradesman (yes, a fellow tradesman like himself, as Polly always remarked with not a hint of shame whatsoever) when she could have a squire instead (regardless of whether that distinction he yearns to confer on his daughter has to be purchased by cancelling Ralph's debts), only serve to show the extremes to which doting yet pretentious parents may go in order to fulfill their own vanity (indeed, Mr. Neefit's obstinacy matches only that of Reverend Crawley's against accepting any sort of assistance to forfend the ruin of his family in "The Last Chronicle of Barset"), while Polly's reluctance to acquiesce on grounds of dignity upturns every convention and resolution that women abided by two centuries ago and which still rule some nowadays. Hence, as she regards Ontario Mogg's simple but ardent spirit as more precious than Ralph's estate, I am one with him when he declares that he'd sooner have a kiss from her than be Prime Minister. In fine, it is for people like Ontario and Polly that I keep scouting the harvest of Trollope's pen in search of entertainment and enlightenment. Forsooth, what a blessing that Trollope begot and bequeathed such a sweet drama to posterity!
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