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Orley Farm

Name: Orley Farm
Author: Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm is a novel written in the realist mode by Anthony Trollope , and illustrated by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais . It was first published in monthly shilling parts by the London publisher Chapman and Hall. Although this novel appeared to have undersold , Orley Farm became Trollope's personal favourite. George Orwell said the book contained "one of the most brilliant descriptions of a lawsuit in English fiction."The house in the book was based on a farm in Harrow once owned by the Trollope family. The real-life farm became a school, which was originally supposed to be the feeder school to Harrow School. It was renamed Orley Farm School after the novel, with Trollope's permission.

“Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.”

Anthony Trollope book Orley Farm

Source: Orley Farm

“There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, — and always to plead it successfully.”

Anthony Trollope book Orley Farm

Source: Orley Farm (1862), Ch. 8

“It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story "The Great Orley Farm Case." But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore, — Orley Farm.”

Anthony Trollope book Orley Farm

Source: Orley Farm (1862), Ch. 1, first lines.

“Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early.”

Anthony Trollope book Orley Farm

Source: Orley Farm (1862), Ch. 49