Also finished Trollope's The Small House at Allington today (I read a lot). Trollope cracks me up. I just love his style--makes me feel like he's sitting in a chair telling me the story. The book starts, "Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a small house?" Reading Trollope is a great practice to get into. I don't quitre know why "morality tales" fell out of favor in the 20th century. It's kind of nice to get some life lesson in novel form--helps to flesh out some principles we say we believe in.