A TROLLOPE SERIAL
Sir,-In the August 4 Listener, The Lillian (Lilian?) Dale Affair is described as "a radio version of Anthony Trollope’s novel The Small House." I think there must be many Trollopians besides myself whom this travesty of Trollope’s book has provoked to anger. The novelist’s characters and setting have been shamelessly tampered with, and misused to present a sordid melodramatic thriller. My main purpose in writing is to warn listeners who have not yet made the acquaintance of the real’ and beloved Anthony Trollope that this misnamed "version"..is a mockery of the book whose title and characters have been filched. It is an outrage to link it with the great Victorian’s name. By contrast, Dickensians are in luck with the radio version of Dombey and Son if it maintains the standard reached in the first instalment, to which I had the pleasure of listening the other day. In this case we are given the real Dombey, and can follow it book in hand
if we wish,
A.H.
R.
(Dunedin). —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 531, 26 August 1949, Page 5
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171A TROLLOPE SERIAL New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 531, 26 August 1949, Page 5
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