Trollope: Toast & Marital Troubles
I love Anthony Trollope's novels. I am reading Orley Farm and find that one of his topics is male infidelity, or at least the pursuit of what he calls "strange goddesses." He explains the situation from the point of view of each of the characters, which is interesting in itself: a middle-aged Victorian man putting himself in the mind of a long-suffering wife. But what I really appreciate is the way he conveys some of this in homely examples. Here's one: In the course of the evening the footman in livery [...]