Is He Popenjoy ?

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - General Fiction, Humorous Fiction

Authors: Anthony Trollope In Year : 1873

Book Language: English

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01 - Introductory Number One
02 - Introductory Number Two
03 - Life at Manor Cross
04 - At the Deanery
05 - Miss Tallowax is Shown the House
06 - Bad Tidings
07 - Cross Hall Gate
08 - Pugsby Brook
09 - Mrs. Houghton
10 - The Dean as a Sporting Man
11 - Lord and Lady George go up to Town
12 - Miss Mildmay and Jack de Baron
13 - More News from Italy
14 - 'Are we to Call Him Popenjoy ?'
15 - 'Drop It'
16 - All is Fish that Comes to his Net
17 - The Disabilities
18 - Lord George up in London
19 - Rather 'Boisterous'
20 - Between Two Stools
21 - The Marquis Comes Home
22 - The Marquis Amongst Friends
23 - The Marquis Sees his Brother
24 - The Marquis Goes into Bretherton
25 - Lady Susanna in London
26 - The Dean Returns to Town
27 - The Baroness Banmann Again
28 - What Matter if She Does'
29 - Mr. Houghton Wants a Glass of Sherry
30 - The Dean is Very Busy
31 - The Marquis Migrates to London
32 - Lord George is Troubled
33 - Captain de Baron
34 - A Dreadful Communication
35 - 'I Deny It'
36 - Popenjoy is Popenjoy
37 - Preparations for the Ball
38 - The Kappa Kappa
39 - Rebellion
40 - As to Bluebeard
41 - Scumberg's
42 - 'Not Go!'
43 - Real Love
44 - What the Brotherton Clergymen Said About It.
45 - Lady George at the Deanery
46 - Lady Sarah's Mission
47 - That Young Fellow in There
48 - The Marquis Makes a Proposition
49 - 'Wouldn't you Come Here - For a Week ?'
50 - Rudham Park
51 - Guss Mildmay's Success
52 - Another Lover
53 - Poor Popenjoy
54 - Jack de Baron's Virtue
55 - How Could He Help It
56 - Sir Henry Said it was the Only Thing
57 - Mr. Knox Hears Again from the Marquis
58 - Mrs. Jones' Letter
59 - Back in London
60 - The Last of the Baroness
61 - The News Comes Home
62 - The Will
63 - Popenjoy is Born and Christened
64 - Conclusion

Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues are complicated by the specter of possible illegitimacy. Lord George Germain, a thoroughly respectable, upstanding, if not particularly bright younger son with new wife, rather expects to inherit a title, since his vicious and dissolute elder brother, the Marquis of Brotherton, who lives in Italy, shows no signs of settling down and producing heirs. Then comes a thunderbolt in the form of a letter from the Marquis suddenly claiming that he has, late in life, married an Italian widow and sired a son. This little boy, if he is indeed legitimate, is Lord Popenjoy and the heir to the marquisate. But is he legitimate? Are his parents in fact properly united in holy wedlock? And were they so at the time of his birth on alien soil? How on earth to find out? The book, which starts almost as a comedy of manners (and perhaps also a comedy of manors), takes on a darker and more sardonic tone with this mystery, and with some other suspected and actual romantic entanglements which are not entirely in the aristocratic Victorian rule-book. Among the large cast of characters are two memorable foreigners: the repellent German feminist Baroness Bannmann, and the rather more attractive American version, Amelia Q. Fleabody (not, of course, to be confused in any way with the real Elizabeth Peabody, who under another name, lies at the heart of Henry James's The Bostonians).(Summary by Nicholas Clifford)