Anthony Trollope: 515 books

Excerpt resort for invalids, or rather for those who fear that they may become invalids if they remain in a cold climate during the winter months. And thus at Cairo there is always to be found a considerable population of French, Americans, and of English. Oriental life is brought home to us,...

Every one remembers the severity of the Christmas of 187-. I will not designate the year more closely, lest I should enable those who are too curious to investigate the circumstances of this story, and inquire into details which I do not intend to make known. That winter, however, was especially severe,...

Après moult péripéties, l’amour finit toujours par triompher. Dans ce roman d’éducation sentimentale, les parents, adoptifs ou non, sont confrontés à de jeunes gens qui n’en font qu’à leur tête. Le récit, très vivant et plein de suspens, publié à l’origine en feuilleton, reste d’une universelle actualité pour tous les parents du monde.

Lily Dale ama l’arrivista Crosbie, che in appena due settimane l’abbandona per fidanzarsi con Lady Alexandrina, figlia del conte de Courcy, mentre un giovane di belle speranze, John Eames, nel frattempo s’innamora di Lily. Questo l’intreccio principale del quinto romanzo della serie delle...

Ancora un romanzo ambientato nella contea di Barset. Il dottor Thorne come tutti i personaggi dei romanzi dell'autore, si trova ad affrontare un problema morale. Una storia avvincente ricca di personaggi e colpi di scena.

L’epilogo del monumentale Ciclo del Barsetshire, la contea immaginaria di uno dei classici dell’Ottocento inglese. «È sorprendente quanto poco ingiallite siano le sue fotografie» (Mario Praz). Fotografie di interni vittoriani.

Uno dei lavori più felici del prolifico scrittore vittoriano. Secondo dei romanzi del Ciclo Palliser, è il corposo, minuzioso, opulento ritratto di un giovane irlandese che si forma alla maturità, in cammino verso l’affermazione politica.

La vita oggi è un’ambiziosa satira sociale e fu ispirato da una serie di scandali finanziari degli anni Settanta dell’Ottocento. Decine di personaggi attorniano il protagonista principale: un finanziere, August Melmotte, dall’oscuro passato, che impianta a Londra famiglia, affari e vita sociale,...

Mark Robarts, is a young vicar, settled in the village of Framley in Barsetshire with his wife and children. Mark has ambitions to further his career and begins to seek connections in the county's high society. Another plot line deals with the romance between Mark's sister Lucy and Lord Lufton. The couple are deeply in love and the young man proposes, but Lady Lufton is against the marriage.

In the cathedral city of Barchester, a much loved bishop dies. His son, Archdeacon Grantly, will succeed him. Instead, owing to the passage of the power of patronage to a new Prime Minister, a newcomer, the far more Evangelical Bishop Proudie, gains the see. His wife, Mrs Proudie, exercises an undue...

Lily has for a long time been secretly loved by John Eames, a junior clerk at the Income Tax Office, while Bell is in love with the local doctor, James Crofts. The handsome and personable, somewhat mercenary Adolphus Crosbie is introduced into the circle by the squire's nephew, Bernard Dale. Adolphus rashly proposes marriage to portionless Lily, who accepts him, to the dismay of John Eames.

Doctor Thorne begins to establish a medical practice, while Henry seduces Mary Scatcherd, the sister of stonemason Roger Scatcherd. When Scatcherd finds out that Mary has become pregnant, he seeks out Henry and, in the ensuing fight, kills him.

John Bold, launches a campaign to expose disparities in the operation of Hiram's Hospital charity. John Bold embarks on this campaign in a spirit of public duty despite his romantic involvement with Eleanor and previously cordial relations with Mr Harding, the meek, elderly warden of Hiram's Hospital....

Indefer Jones is the aged squire, between seventy and eighty years of age, of a large manor, Llanfeare, in Carmarthen, Wales. His niece, Isabel Brodrick, has lived with him for years after the remarriage of her father, and endeared herself to everyone. However, according to his strong traditional beliefs, the estate must be passed down to a male heir.