Anthony Trollope: 515 books

Did the Reverend Josiah Crawley, the curate of Hogglestock, really steal a check? Poverty and misfortune have so clouded his mind, even he isn’t sure. The tragic character must even worry that his accusers will ruin his daughter’s prospects for marrying the Archdeacon’s son. “I regard this as the best novel I have written,” declared the author.

Published in 1863, this novel concerns the struggles of a young man to win the woman he loves despite the disapproval of her religious parents.  Luke Rowan, heir of one of the founders of the Bungall and Tappitt brewery, visits the brewery with plans of improving the beer—there he falls in love with...

An 1855 tale of English ecclesiastical life, this work from the author's Barsetshire series relates the humor and pathos that ensue when a kindly clergyman becomes the subject of a scandalous tabloid treatment charging him with financial impropriety. Features a cast of amusingly realistic and memorable characters, naturalistic dialogue, and consummate plotting.

Will ne pouvait pas lui lire de poésie ni lui dire ce qui se passait dans le monde des lettres, ou ce qui s’y était passé dans d’autres temps. Il était douteux que Belton pût nommer les ministres actuels, ou qu’il sût le nom d’un seul évêque, excepté, celui du diocèse dans lequel...

WE have known many prettier girls than Mary Gresley, and many handsomer women—but we never knew girl or woman gifted with a face which in supplication was more suasive, in grief more sad, in mirth more merry. It was a face that compelled sympathy, and it did so with the conviction on the mind of...

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When neither the Whigs nor the Tories are able to form a government on their own, a fragile compromise coalition government is formed, with Plantagenet Palliser, the wealthy and hard-working Duke of Omnium, installed as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Duchess, formerly Lady Glencora Palliser,...

A wealthy young English gentleman, Louis Trevelyan, visits the fictional Mandarin Islands, a distant British possession, and becomes smitten with Emily Rowley, the eldest daughter of the governor, Sir Marmaduke Rowley. The Rowleys accompany Trevelyan to London, where he marries Emily. When the rest of...

The title character is the daughter of the late Earl Lovel. Her mother married him out of ambition rather than love, and despite his evil reputation. Soon after their marriage, he told her that he had a living wife, which made their union invalid and their unborn daughter illegitimate. He then sailed to Italy without her and did not return to England for twenty years.

The circumstances of the general election of 18— will be well remembered by all those who take an interest in the political matters of the country. There had been a coming in and a going out of Ministers previous to that,—somewhat rapid, very exciting, and, upon the whole, useful as showing the...

AS all the world knows, the old fortifications of Vienna have been pulled down,-the fortifications which used to surround the centre or kernel of the city; and the vast spaces thus thrown open and forming a broad ring in the middle of the town have not as yet been completely filled up with those new...

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...

Oui ! en ce qui touche les côtés vulgaires de l’humanité, notre siècle est un siècle humain. Donnons du pain à tout le monde, hommes, femmes et enfants ; qu’ils ne reçoivent pas de coups, ou le moins possible ; qu’ils soient décemment vêtus, et, de plus, préservés des épidémies....