The mysterious financier Augustus Melmotte buys a great house in London, where he succeeds in persuading many prominent Londoners to invest in his fictitious railroad, the South Central Pacific and Mexican. Melmotte also attempts to secure for himself a place in the House of Commons and to marry his daughter to a titled aristocrat. His daughter, ...
The second novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire continues the story of the conflict between High and Low Church begun in THE WARDEN. Trollope introduces Mrs. Proudie, the bishop's wife, one of his most famously despicable characters. The plot revolves around the power struggle between her and Mr. Slope, the bishop's chaplain, for control of ...
Mark Robarts, a naïve young clergyman, backs a friend, Nathaniel Sowerby, for a loan. When it's time to pay up, Sowerby is unable to do so, and Robarts is stuck with the debt. Meanwhile, his sister Lucy falls in love with Lord Lufton, but his mother opposes the marriage, considering it beneath her son. In the end, Mark is saved from disgrace and ...
A story of unrequited love set against the backdrop of dramatic social and political change, the novel introduces Trollope's favorite heroine, Lily Dale, as well as Plantagenet Palliser and Lady Glencora. The plot concerns Lily's rejection of her impassioned and persistent suitor, Johnny Eames, in favor of a social-climbing parvenu--who eventually ...
The first of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, THE WARDEN explores the ethical dilemma of the Rev. Septimus Harding, the gentle, cello-playing warden of a charitable home for elderly men. Unjustly accused of receiving money to which he is not entitled, the modest and self-doubting Harding insists on resigning, feeling that his honor has been ...
Published in 1865, this is the first novel in Trollope's Palliser series. Alice Vavasor, a cousin of Trollope's beloved character Lady Glencora Palliser, is torn between two suitors, one a reckless politician. Engaged first to one, then to the other, Alice changes her mind yet a third time before she settles down--a radical departure from the way ...
Young Frank Gresham, heir to an impoverished estate, must marry a woman with money. But he loves Dr. Thorne's daughter Mary, who has none. However, Dr. Thorne is the only one who knows an old family secret that will enable Mary and Frank to marry.
The fifth of the six "Palliser novels", THE PRIME MINISTER covers the period in which Plantagenet Palliser reluctantly leads the country in a three-year coalition government. Despite his wife's efforts to consolidate his base of support, he is too sensitive, diffident, and uncompromising to make a successful prime minister. Threaded into the ...
THE DUKE'S CHILDREN, the last of the six Palliser novels, brings to an end the story of Plantagenet Palliser, Trollope's own favorite character among his fictional creations. The Duchess of Omnium--the beloved Lady Glencora--has died, and the Duke must cope alone with his three children. His son Lord Silverbridge and his daughter Lady Mary are ...
This panoramic novel is a collection of small plots, including a continuation of the story of Lily Dale and Johnny Eames (of THE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON), the death of the dreadful Mrs. Proudie (of BARCHESTER TOWERS), and the false accusation of theft against old Mr. Crawley, who is triumphantly vindicated. Trollope obligingly killed off Mrs. ...
The central character of this novel is Lizzie Eustace, a brave, beautiful, and completely wicked young woman who steals her own diamond necklace because her inheritance of it is in dispute. By means of Lizzie's unscrupulous actions, Trollope examines the many meanings of "truth" in Victorian society. Trollope obviously disliked and disapproved of ...
This much darker sequel to PHINEAS FINN is the fourth novel in Trollope's Palliser series. Phineas Finn returns to London from Ireland after the death of his first wife, and is once again elected to Parliament. When one of his political enemies is murdered, Phineas is indicted and imprisoned and, though he is acquitted, he resigns his seat. In ...
Miss Margaret Mackenzie, whose life has been singularly drab and uneventful, inherits a small fortune and finds herself being pursued by suitors. The novel is a sympathetic portrait of a single woman past marriageable age--although Miss Mackenzie does, in the end, find a suitor she can accept: her cousin, the earnest widower John Ball, father of ...
Fred Neville, in line for an earldom, is stationed with his regiment in Ireland and falls passionately in love with an Irish girl whose background is far from the equal of his. Back in England, he must deal with the implacable opposition of his narrow-minded family.
In his autobiography, Trollope summed up the plot of this novel in these words: "In it a young girl, who is really a lady of high rank and great wealth, though in her youth she enjoyed none of the privileges of wealth or rank, marries a tailor who has been good to her, and whom she had loved when she was poor and neglected." Trollope's readers ...
The second in Trollope's Palliser series, this 1868 novel introduces Phineas Finn, the charming, handsome Irish Catholic politician, and chronicles his election to Parliament, his adventures in the London social world, his romances with three different women, and his abandonment of politics and return to Ireland. The novel also marks the first ...
The second in Trollope's Palliser series, this 1868 novel introduces Phineas Finn, the charming, handsome Irish Catholic politician, and chronicles his election to Parliament, his adventures in the London social world, his romances with three different women, and his abandonment of politics and return to Ireland. The novel also marks the first ...
Harry Clavering, a brilliant Oxford grad and civil engineer, is in love with the beautiful Julia Brabazon, but she rejects him in favor of the elderly and debauched Lord Ongar. When the old lord dies of drink, his widow sets her cap for Harry--but by now he is engaged to Florence Burton, the boss's daughter. Harry is tempted, but he remains true ...
Trollope's second novel, written in 1848 after he had worked in Ireland on Post Office business for a year, is about two young men who seek wealthy wives. One is an impoverished peer, the other his distant cousin who is a tenant on his land. Each finds a suitable heiress, falls in love with her, nearly loses her, then wins her in the end. Many ...
Trollope's version of his life story is notable for its candor and objectivity, and for its revelations of the details of a forbidden topic in proper Victorian society: money. He confesses that he earned, to date, a total of £58, 959. 17s. 5 d and gives a detailed accounting of his earnings for each book. (The other forbidden topic--sex--is, ...
Louis Trevelyan, a kind and generous man, and Emily, his beautiful and intelligent wife, enjoy an apparently happy marriage until Louis begins to doubt his wife's fidelity. As his jealousy deepens into obsession and eventually madness, the loyalty of his wife and friends is sorely tried. Against the disintegration of the Trevelyans' marriage, a ...
THE THREE CLERKS was loved by, among others, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband. "I was wrung to tears by the third volume," she wrote in a letter. The novel tells the story of young Henry Norman and his friends Alaric and Charley--all clerks in a government office, who become friendly with the three Woodward sisters. Henry loves Gertrude; ...
Trollope's belief that reading novels was the ideal way for women to "learn what was expected from them, and what to expect when loves come" informs this charming depiction of the romance between an innocent young woman from a small town and a brash young man from London. Luke Rowan, a brewer, falls in love with Rachel Ray, but the match is ...
According to his autobiography, Anthony Trollope wrote this novel "chiefly with the idea of exciting not only pity but sympathy for a fallen woman." The story takes place in the parish of Bullhampton, where the miller's daughter Carrie is a "fallen woman," and his son is accused of murdering a local farmer. When the marquis, who owns most of the ...
Clara Amedroz must choose between the suave Captain Aylmer, who wants to marry her for mercenary reasons, and Will Belton, a prosperous farmer. She becomes engaged to the captain, but when her eyes are opened to his true nature she breaks the engagement, turning to the unpolished but honest Will, who still loves her. One of the novel's subplots, ...
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