Anthony Trollope
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The five stories in this volume contrast the old ways with the new; the traditional ideals of duty and responsibility with the youthful quest for love. The title story tells of the need to move with the times financially as Frau Frohmann reluctantly raises her prices to suit the increasing salaries of her hotel guests. 'The Lady of Launay' and 'The Telegraph Girl' compare two kinds of self-sacrifice. Lucy Graham is a telegraph girl whose sense of...
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A 1951 review in the New York Herald Tribune pronounced this 1862 travel memoir "superb . . . Its effect today is that of an extraordinary newsreel of civilian life in 1861-62, vivid in its photography, literate in its running commentary, as fair as an honest, open-minded man could make it." Trollope recounts his adventures in Boston, Cambridge, Lowell, Washington, and more-along the way he learns about Congress, women's rights, abolition, education,...
83) Linda Tressel
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Linda Tressel (1868) by Anthony Trollope was originally published anonymously, and was an attempt at a stylistic and thematic departure for the author. However, the voice of Trollope was unmistakable in this much more somber work, and the true authorship was ultimately unveiled. The heroine, Linda Tressel, is pressured by her religious zealot aunt to marry an unpleasant man she finds repulsive. The story unfolds in some caricature and melodrama, yet...
84) Lord Palmerston
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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,...
85) Hunting Sketches
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This quick read by Anthony Trollope paints a quaint and humorous picture of fox hunting in rural Victorian England. It's a relatively short look at the cast of characters in a traditional fox hunt.
86) La Mere Bauche
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La Mere Bauche, an autocratic innkeeper in the Eastern Pyrenees, was excessively ambitious for her only son's future. She had adopted an orphan girl, Marie Calvert, and brought her up as a daughter of the house until she learned that her son also loved the girl. The marriage would have made impossible her dreams for Adolphe's success in life, and she sent him away for a year's travel, planning to marry Marie to an elderly habitué of the inn, Theodore...
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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...
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Written during Victorian times by a British, so Trollop makes comparisons to the British system of the time. Cicero was a great orator and philosopher, added to Latin new words. This book is about his life, not the letters that he is famous. Influenced by Greeks, educated in Greece, showed his intellect at a young age by translating Greek philosophy. As a barrister was very clever and interesting approaches to winning.
91) Docteur Thorne
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Le Docteur Thorne, qui a valu à Anthony Trollope son plus grand succès, constitue (en 1858) l'une des premières apparitions dans le roman anglais du personnage du médecin, appelé à un bel avenir littéraire. Les rapports entre le mariage et l'argent, dans une société inégalitaire mais mobile, sont au cœur d'une intrigue attachante. Le docteur Thorne, célibataire endurci, a recueilli chez lui sa nièce Mary, orpheline, qui est devenue une...