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1) The warden
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The Warden makes an excellent introduction to Trollope's work. It tells of a dispute that arises between the Church of England and reformers. The Reverend Harding is the warden of small home providing quarters for 12 retired, impoverished workers. The facility is provided for by a trust set up by its founder over 200 years ago. Income off the land provides income for the maintenance of the home and a living for the warden, who is a gentle,
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Chronicles of Barsetshire volume 3
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English
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The breathtaking love story of an illegitimate girl and the young noble who would choose her above all. Gender issues and economic hardships are dealt with deftly in Doctor Thorne, the third novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, and arguably the saga's finest love story. Set in rural England in the fictitious county of Barsetshire, this Victorian novel is one of Anthony Trollope's most optimistic and engaging works. When Henry Thorne seduces local...
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Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of nineteenth-century London and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. The story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his daughter, to whom Felix Carbury, adored son of the authoress Lady Carbury, is induced to propose marriage for the sake of securing a fortune....
5) Rachel Ray
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Rachel Ray is the younger daughter of a lawyer's widow. She lives with her mother and her widowed sister, Dorothea Prime, in a cottage near Exeter in Devon. Mrs. Ray is amiable but weak, unable to make decisions on her own and ruled by her older daughter. Mrs. Prime is a strict and gloomy Evangelical, persuaded that all worldly joys are impediments to salvation. Rachel is courted by Luke Rowan, a young man from London who has inherited an interest...
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Penguin Books Ltd
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her first husband - a reprobate from Louisiana - appears at the school gates, a dreadful secret is revealed and the county is scandalized. Ostracised by the community, the pair seem trapped in a hopeless situation - until the combative but warm-hearted headmaster of the school, Dr Wortle, offers...
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Project Gutenberg
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The heroine, Mary Masters, is the daughter of an attorney, and has been raised as a gentlewoman. Her stepmother is from a lower social order; believing it best for Mary, she pressures her strongly to accept a proposal from Lawrence Twentyman, a prosperous young yeoman farmer with aspirations to gentility. While Mary respects Twentyman for his excellent qualities, she feels that she cannot love him, as a wife should a husband. She admires Reginald...
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Project Gutenberg
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The Fixed Period (1882) is a satirical dystopian novel by Anthony Trollope. Gabriel Crasweller, a successful merchant-farmer and landowner, is Britannula's oldest citizen. Born in 1913, he emigrated from New Zealand when he was a young man and was instrumental in building the new republic as one of a group of similar-minded men which included his best friend John Neverbend, ten years his junior, who is now serving his term as President of Britannula....
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eBooksLib
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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During the first two months of the year 1844, the greatest possible excitement existed in Dublin respecting the State Trials, in which Mr O'Connell, his son, the Editors of three different repeal newspapers, Tom Steele, the Rev. Mr Tierney a priest who had taken a somewhat prominent part in the Repeal Movement and Mr Ray, the Secretary to the Repeal Association, were indicted for conspiracy. Those who only read of the proceedings in papers, which...
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The Floating Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Fred Neville, a young officer in the Hussars, is heir to an earldom, but before taking up his responsibilities resolves to enjoy a year of adventure in Ireland where his regiment is posted. When Fred falls in love and seduces an Irish girl of great beauty and mysterious background, the scene is set for a tragic outcome that far exceeds the adventures Fred had in mind. Written in 1870 but not published until 1879, An Eye For An Eye is arguably the...
11) Orley Farm
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Orley Farm became Trollope's personal favourite. George Orwell said the book contained 'one of the most brilliant descriptions of a lawsuit in English fiction.' When Joseph Mason of Groby Park, Yorkshire, died, he left his estate to his family. A codicil to his will, however, left Orley Farm (near London) to his much younger second wife and infant son. The will and the codicil were in her handwriting, and there were three witnesses, one of whom was...
12) The Bertrams
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Project Gutenberg
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George Bertram's uncle, a wealthy City merchant, had sent him to Oxford where he made a brilliant record. Inclined toward the church and unwilling to follow his uncle's advice to adopt commerce as a career, he postponed his decision until after a visit to the Holy Land. In Jerusalem he met his father Sir Lionel Bertram, whom he had not seen since his boyhood and who had shown no interest in his upbringing. Sir Lionel held a minor military diplomatic...
13) The Claverings
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Project Gutenberg
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Anthony Trollope mixes love, money, and ambition in his love triangles — which has kept his fans reading his work addictively ever since Queen Victoria. In this 1867 novel, Harry Clavering, an ambitious civil engineer, must choose: to wed a wealthy widow and gain a life of comfort, or to honor his previous engagement — and struggle.
14) Lady Anna
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"Lady Anna" was written in 1871 and first published in 1874. It tells the story of Lady Lovel, whose ambitious marriage to the ill-reputed Earl Lovel left her with a child of questionable legitimacy. When her daughter, Lady Anna, is nearly twenty one, the Earl dies and his fortune is left to a distant nephew. Lady Anna must now decide to marry the young Frederick Lovel for money, or to disregard her mother's vicious meddling and marry her true love...
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Duty or Honor? Sir Harry is a wealthy man who has a son and a daughter. His fortune seems safe but when his son dies, his family title is under heavy threat. His only descendent is Emily who will inherit the estate yet lose the name Hotspur of Humblethwaite. There is a solution though, if Emily marries his cousin's son, George Hotspur, the family title will survive. Is Sir Harry willing to take this deal?
16) Miss Mackenzie
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Miss Mackenzie" by Anthony Trollope. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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In "An Autobiography" (1883), Trollope turns his eye inward, examining his rich and diverse life-his troubled youth, his failed political career, and his unique writing process-this work proves to be as insightful as it is entertaining. A classic in itself, "An Autobiography" is a revealing account of one of the 19th century's most enigmatic authors.
18) Nina Balatka
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Nina Balatka is the story of a beautiful young Christian girl in 19th century Prague who is beset with two great troubles. First is her economic situation, having been plunged into poverty after her father's industry failed him and he became ill unto death. The second, portrayed as the greater trouble in this 150 year-old book is her love for a wealthy Jewish businessman named Anton Trendellsohn.
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This edition of combines the contents of two volumes that appeared under this title in 1861 and 1863, respectively. The focus throughout is on the eternal verities of human nature as reflected in various countries and cultures. Among the seventeen stories are "La Mere Bauche," "The Courtship of Susan Bell," "The Chateau of Prince Polignac," "The Mistletoe Bough," and "The Man Who Kept his Money in a Box."
20) The Three Clerks
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Charley Tudor may have passed the civil-service exam for the Internal Navigation Office, but he is no gentleman, mixed up as he is with moneylenders and barmaids. His friend Alaric is not doing much better, as he is caught embezzling money from a trust fund. Henry, Charley's brother, is now responsible for clearing Alaric's name and saving the three men from further trouble.
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