Anthony Trollope

The quiet life of an English clergyman is disturbed by rumors about the source of his income.

The Last Chronicle of Barset is a novel by Anthony Trollope, published in 1867. It is the final book of a series of six, often referred to collectively as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Last Chronicle of Barset concerns an indigent but learned clergyman, the Reverend Josiah Crawley, the perpetual curate of Hogglestock, who stands accused of stealing a cheque. The novel is notable for the non-resolution of a plot continued from the previous novel...

If you want to learn a little more about William Thackeray, both as a person and of his works generally, this monograph will certainly satisfy you. Yet, what may astonish you is the overwhelming capacity of Trollope's mind, as well as the vastness of its repository, for he dissects many of his friend's works in such a meticulous way that would imply that he, Trollope, did nothing else in his whole existence other than study Thackeray's diverse writings...

The Vicar of Bullhampton is an 1870 novel by Anthony Trollope. It is made up of three intertwining subplots: the courtship of a young woman by two suitors; a feud between the titular Broad church vicar and a Low church nobleman, abetted by a Methodist minister; and the vicar's attempt to rehabilitate a young woman who has gone astray. Trollope expected his depiction of a fallen woman to be controversial, and unusually for him wrote a preface defending...

This memoir by Trollope, written between November 1881 and February 1882, the last year of the author's life, offers the modern reader a vivid impression of Palmerston's character and career. Fascinatingly the man is revealed as possessing most of the characteristics of a typical Trollope character from the author's novels: indeed Plantaganet Palliser had already been given many of Palmerston's attributes, particularly his stubbornness, his doggedness,...

The cozy community of Barchester is rocked from its complacency when a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires.

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