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Penguin Trollope S.

2 primary works • 52 total works

v. 21

Cover of The Last Chronicle of Barset


The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) is the novel that Anthony Trollope considered his masterpiece.
     In the course of the last century and a half, Trollope’s county of Barset has become one of English literature’s most celebrated fictional landscapes. This sixth and final novel in the Barsetshire series revolves around the proud, hardworking, and impecunious Reverend Josiah Crawley, curate of the poor parish of Hogglestock, and his brush with disaster. Crawley stands accused of a theft, but, as he is uncertain himself as to the truth of the matter, he is unable to offer a defense and retreats into self-doubt and shame. The community is bitterly divided between those who wish to help him and those convinced of his guilt, the latter headed by Mrs. Proudie, the bishop’s forceful wife. Meanwhile, Crawley’s daughter Grace has captured the affection of Archdeacon Grantly’s son, Henry, but her father’s scandal stands in the way of their marriage. The solution to the mystery, the downfall of Mrs. Proudie, and the resolution of the fates of many other beloved characters, including Septimus Harding, Johnny Eames, and Lily Dale, bring the famous Barsetshire chronicles to a splendid conclusion. The Last Chronicle of Barset provides a brilliant example of Trollope’s ability to render a highly individual society with such detail and force that it comes to reflect every society, in any age.

v. 36

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Way We Live Now

by Anthony Trollope

Published March 1969
The Way We Live Now is both a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. Trollope is described as the quintessential Victorian novelist.

v. 48

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Marion Fay

by Anthony Trollope

Published 18 June 1992
First published in serial form in the Graphic (1881-2), Marion Fay is half tragedy, half romantic burlesque, and at the same time is one of Trollope's most detailed scrutinies of the workings of the English class system. The novel contrasts two love affairs, each involving an aristocrat and a commoner. The subversive Lord Hampstead's plunge into middle-class society in his passionate pursuit of Marion Fay, a Quaker and daughter of a City clerk, is balanced by the testing of his radical friend George Roden, a clerk in the General Post Office, whose bizarre experiences among the aristocracy during his courtship of Hampstead's sister Lady Frances Trafford, are employed to satirize the concept of rank. Trollope vividly evokes the dull working lives, plain homes, blank streets, and limited horizons of the dwellers in Paradise Row, using them as an ironic choric commentary on the unattainable world of rank, wealth, and freedom, symbolized by life in the great country houses. This edition is based on the first three-volume edition of 1882.
This book is intended for general readers, undergraduate and postgraduate students of English Literature, the nineteenth century novel, nineteenth century British history.

v. 27

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The Vicar of Bullhampton

by Anthony Trollope

Published 1 January 1979
First published in 1870, this is the tale of a young clergyman's attempts to prove a man's innocence and restore his sister, a prostitute, to society. By choosing a prostitute as his central female character, Trollope boldy addressed a topical question of the day: how could women live independently without falling into prostitution or adopting the more extreme political attitudes of feminism?

v. 30

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Ralph the Heir

by Anthony Trollope

Published 1 June 1990
One Ralph Newton is a ne'er-do-well; the other is illegitimate. One must inherit the family property, but will social convention triumph over just deserts? Rich in hunting senes, love plots, and Radical politics, this tale of crossed inheritance combines the darker hues and confident social criticism of Trollope's later writing with passages of autobiography and broad comedy. This is the only annotated student edition available. This book is intended for general, Trollope fans, students of Victorian literature, and the Victorian legal scene.

v. 29

Cover of Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
Since its first appearance in 1870, this has been regarded as one of Trollope's finest short novels. It is the tale of a conscientious father vacillating between a desire to marry his daughter to a cousin destined to inherit the family title, and his fear that the cousin, reportedly a scheming wastrel, is unworthy of her. Sir Harry Hotspur has been called Trollope's saddest story, and at the same time is the superlative exception to the rule that Trollope's long, comfortable books are his best. This book is intended for general readers, students and teachers of Victorian literature.

v. 46

Cover of Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices

v. 15

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Rachel Ray

by Anthony Trollope

Published 1 March 1980
This novel, first published in 1863, is set in the Devon countryside and is a study of middle-class life in a small provincial community in mid-nineteenth century England. It tells of Rachel Ray, and her suitor Luke Rowan, and his battle to wrest control over Baslehurst's brewery from the ageing Mr Tappitt. P.D.Edwards has also written "Anthony Trollope, His Art and Scope" (1977), "Anthony Trollope's Son in Australia" (1982) and edited Trollope's "Autobiography" and "Framley Parsonage".

v. 13

Cover of The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson: By One of the Firm (Classic Reprint)
"The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson" (1861-2) is Trollope's satirical attack on abuses in advertising. Told by "One of the Firm", it is the tale of a foolhardy junior partner of an ill-fated haberdashery store. Formerly a bill-sticker, Robinson wishes to spend the firm's entire capital on advertising, to "broadcast through the metropolis on walls, omnibuses, railway stations, little books, pavement chalkings, illuminated notices, porters' backs, gilded cars, and men in armour". Although Robinson's devotion to inflated and dishonest advertising is the target of Trollope's satire, Robinson is none the less presented as an attractive and sympathetic character.

v. 23

Cover of Lotta Schmidt and other stories

v. 28

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An Editor's Tales

by Anthony Trollope

Published 29 July 1993

v. 3

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Vendee, La

by Anthony Trollope

Published 25 March 1993
La Vendee (1850) is unusual in being Trollope's only historical novel, written immediately before the first of the Barchester series. Set in rural western France in 1793, the plot centres on the civil war between roylists and rebel republicans. Trollope's support for the rebels emerges not only through his treatment of military conflict but also in a romantic subplot, where the lovers are as doomed as the rebellion itself. His depiction of the turncoat Denot is a piercing psychological study of a near-pathological character, unusual both for Trollope and for his time. Beneath the surface of the narrative various subversive themse can be detected, and the introduction sheds light on how the book constituted Trollope's own rebellion against his family. This edition, with its extensive notes and gazetteer, is the first to examine the novel both sympathetically and critically.