Rachel Ray

Anthony Trollope

Oxford University Press, 1998 - Fiction - 415 pages

Rachel Rayoffers a masterly and entertaining evocation of a small community living its life in mid-nineteenth-century England. The novel first appeared in 1863, a year in which public reaction against the excesses of the popular sensationalist novel prompted Trollope to state thathewas writing about "the commonest details of commonplace life among the most ordinary people."

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Contents

• СПАР PAGE: 1
• THE ARM IN THE CLOUDS: 25
• WHAT SHALL BE DONE ABOUT IT?: 43
• MR COMFORT GIVES HIS ADVICE: 55
• PREPARATIONS FOR MRS TAPPITTS: 68
• AN ACCOUNT OF MRS TAPPITTS: 82
• AN ACCOUNT OF MRS TAPPITTS: 96
• MR PRONG AT HOME: 111
• AS TO THE BREWERY: 124
• ΧΙ LUKE ROWAN TAKES HIS TEA QUITE: 136
• LIKE HIM: 149
• MR TAPPITT IN HIS COUNTING: 161
• CHAP PAGE XIV LUKE ROWAN PAYS A SECOND VISIT TO BRAGGS END: 175
• MATERNAL ELOQUENCE: 190
• RACHEL RAYS FIRST LOVELETTER: 203
• ELECTIONEERING: 212
• DR HARFORD: 228
• MR COMFORT CALLS AT THE COT TAGE: 242
• SHOWING WHAT RACHEL RAY THOUGHT WHEN SHE SAT ON THE STILE AND HOW SHE WROTE HER LETTER AFTERWARDS: 256
• MRS RAY GOES TO EXETER AND MEETS A FRIEND: 271
• DOMESTIC POLITICS AT THE BREWERY: 287
• MRS RAYS PENITENCE: 300
• THE ELECTION AT BASLEHURST: 315
• THE BASLEHURST GAZETTE: 331
• CORNBURY GRANGE: 339
• IN WHICH THE QUESTION OF THE BREWERY IS SETTLED: 352
• WHAT TOOK PLACE AT BRAGGS END FARM: 369
• MRS PRIME READS HER RECANTA TION: 383
• CONCLUSION: 395

About the author

Anthony Trollope was born in London, England on April 24, 1815. In 1834, he became a junior clerk in the General Post Office, London. In 1841, he became a deputy postal surveyor in Banagher, Ireland. He was sent on many postal missions ending up as a surveyor general in the post office outside of London. His first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, was published in 1847. His other works included Castle Richmond, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Lady Anna, The Two Heroines of Plumplington, and The Noble Jilt. He died after suffering from a paralytic stroke on December 6, 1882.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Rachel Ray; Oxford world's classics; World's classics
• Author: Anthony Trollope
• Editor: P. D. Edwards
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0192837389, 9780192837387
• Length: 415 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh