DVD. Mercenaries 2: World In Flames. Classics

This fact is attested to by the great number of Trollope editions in print, a number that could soon reach the phenomenal total of 250, as Penguin Books follows Oxford University Press World's Classics in bringing out its own uniform paperback editions of all the novels, the short stories, and An Autobiography. And because very few of these books are produced for the lucrative classroom market-with its captive audiences-it may be said that more people choose to read Trollope than any other classic English -475- author. The aforementioned recent outburst of critical attention simply means that Trollope criticism is catching up with the so-called ordinary reader, not to mention fellow novelists, in admiration for and loyalty to Trollope. Meanwhile the " Trollope problem" persists in spite of admirable efforts by critics to explain him. It begins with the preliminary question of which Trollope books merit the most attention. The "chaos of criticism" articulated by Bradford Booth in 1958 still obtains: "Among Trollope's forty-seven novels there are only a handful that someone has not called his best." That critics and readers would disagree about the relative merits of books amid so large a number is only natural ...»