Anthony trollope

Poor man’s Dickens, or master of motives and manners? Authors pick the book that they most admire, from the Bishop of London on The Prime Minister to Antonia Fraser on Can You Forgive Her?

Over the course of his 39 year writing career-from 1843 to 1882-Anthony Trollope wrote 47 novels, 17 non-fiction books, 2 plays, and over 20 articles and letters, that made him famous. As a further…

Anthony Trollope's story of one man's obsessive self-deception pitted against against the enduring power of his wife's love, He Knew He Was Right is edited with an introduction by Frank Kermode in Penguin Classics. On a visit to the Mandarin Islands, Louis Trevelyan falls in love with Emily, the daughter of the governor, and they are swiftly married and return to live in London. But when a friend of Emily's father - the meddlesome libertine Colonel Osborne - starts paying rather too much…

The first of the well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Warden reveals Trollope's ability to write satirically and hopefully about his society

What were Anthony Trollope's thoughts on literary criticism ethics? (Image: Cartoon portrait of Anthony Trollope by Frederick Waddy. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

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Read 1,218 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. At first savagely reviewed, The Way We Live Now (1875) has since emerged as Trollope's m…

Read 1,217 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. "Trollope did not write for posterity," observed Henry James. "He wrote for the day, the…

Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in influential circles, he agrees to guarantee a bill for a large sum of money for the disreputable local Member of Parliament, while being helped in his career in the Church by the same hand. But the unscrupulous politician reneges on his financial obligations, and Mark must face the consequences this debt may bring to his family. One of Trollope's most enduringly popular novels…