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Where have you heard that before? [b:Pride and Prejudice|1885|Pride and Prejudice|Jane Austen|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320399351s/1885.jpg|3060926]?It is essentially the same story. But there are several major differences between Trollope's and Austen's versions. Austen's was a book-length duelling of manners and confusions where there was time to play out the nuances and inferences that make the book so delightful. Trollope's version, a novella, by reason of length lacked the subtlety of Austen and it was just a headlong rush through the literary equivalent of uncooked meringue.
When Trollope writes well, it's blockbuster 5 stars all the way, think of the [b:Pallisers Novels|1171469|Palliser Novels|Anthony Trollope|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PR5xAagIL._SL75_.jpg|1159221], but Trollope was just as much about quantity as quality and this ranks right down there with the just as sickly [b:The Small House at Allington|144463|The Small House at Allington|Anthony Trollope|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172163443s/144463.jpg|3282131]. Bit like the little girl with the curl, when he was good he was very very good but when he was bad he was horrid. ( )