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Despite a decreasing popularity throughout his career, Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) has become one of the most notable and respected English novelists of the Victorian Era. His penetrating novels on political, social and gender issues of his day have placed him among such nineteenth century literary icons as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Trollope penned 47 novels in his career, in addition to various short stories, travel books and biographies. «Phineas Redux» was first published in 1873 as the fourth novel in the «Palliser» series. It is the story of Phineas Finn, who, when the story begins, has stepped down as a member of parliament to become a lowly poorhouse inspector. When his wife dies in childbirth, he leaves the life he made in Ireland and returns to London. Finn tries his hand in politics once again, and gets caught up in its scandalous inner-workings.

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The first novel of Trollope's six-work Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary Novels, «Can You Forgive Her?» revolves primarily around the young Alice Vavasor, a woman who cannot decide which of two men to marry. While the respectable gentleman John Grey seems the wiser choice, his lack of ambition pales to her virulent and aspiring cousin George. She alternately accepts and rejects each man, only increasing the confusion she feels concerning her emotions. Trollope's protagonist is most certainly breaching the moral code of the Victorian era, which he relates in a revealing description of the social sphere of his time. While Alice feels guilt for her indecision and wavering commitments, she is juxtaposed with the Lady Glencora, an affluent woman who sets her passion for a worthless man aside to marry the wealthy and successful politician Plantagenet Palliser. This character appears in every work of the series and provides a theme of English politics that binds the Parliamentary Novels together.

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Widely acknowledged to be the masterpiece of Trollope's prolific Victorian career, «The Way We Live Now» is the scathing satire he wrote upon returning to England after traveling abroad. In seeking to discuss the deceit and dissipation he found, Trollope spared no iniquitous aspect he perceived in business, politics, social classes, literature, and various vice-related activities. The result of his efforts is an impressive array of characters, such as the old coquette Lady Carbury, her dissolute son Sir Felix, a spoiled and treacherously lovely heiress Marie, and her colossal figure of a father Augustus Melmotte, the great financier whose deceptive plots dupe countless wealthy individuals. Through the swindling, bribery, feuding, and shameless self-promotion of these characters, Trollope writes a sweeping panorama of vice for the sake of monetary greed that will cause readers to reflect on the morality of our own time.

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The second work of the Palliser series, also called the Parliamentary Novels, «Phineas Finn» follows the unpredictable political career of a handsome young Irishman in London. Son of a doctor and himself an unsuccessful law student, the charming Finn becomes involved in both the elections of Parliament and a sequence of romantic struggles. Amidst the troughs and ridges of his chosen profession, Finn becomes involved in turn with first his patroness Lady Laura, then the lovely heiress Violet, then the urbane Madame Goesler, and then his enduring Irish sweetheart Mary Flood Jones. In setting his novel against the backdrop of the Reform Bill of 1867 and the rise of the politician Gladstone in England, Trollope paints a fictional narrative of life during the height of British prestige. In combining these historical circumstances with Finn's politics and romances, Trollope finds a perfect balance of public and personal life that is ultimately realistic and evocative of empathy.

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Despite a decreasing popularity throughout his career, Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) has become one of the most notable and respected English novelists of the Victorian Era. His penetrating novels on political, social and gender issues of his day have placed him among such nineteenth century literary icons as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Trollope penned 47 novels in his career, in addition to various short stories, travel books and biographies. «Doctor Thorne» (1858) is the third novel in Trollope's series known as the «Chronicles of Barsetshire,» and is argued to be Trollope's best work. It tells the story of Mary Thorne, the niece of Dr. Thomas Thorne, whose illegitimacy remains a secret for much of the novel as she is raised by her kind uncle and falls in love with the rich Frank Gresham. This melodramatic novel displays Trollope's brilliant management of plot and dialogue while exploring themes of illegitimacy, class division and the practice of marrying for money.

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The first novel of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, this work introduces the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and many of its clerical inhabitants. Originally published in 1855, the story centers on Mr. Septimus Harding who has been granted the comfortable wardenship of Hiram's Hospital, an almshouse from a medieval charity of the diocese. Mr. Harding, a fundamentally good man and an excellent musician, conscientiously fulfills his duties to the twelve elderly occupants of the hospital. He also cares for his younger daughter Eleanor, who is in love with a young doctor named John Bold. The misfortunes of Harding begin when Bold becomes an enthusiastic reformer and endeavors to expose the great disparity in the allotment of Hiram's antiquated charity funds. This leads to a sequence of events that he becomes powerless to stop, from the editorials of Tom Towers in 'The Jupiter' to the legal interference of Archdeacon Grantly. The novel is a thoughtful description of clerical life infused with the romance of a young couple, which combines to form a novel with a melancholy conclusion.

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Despite a decreasing popularity throughout his career, Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) has become one of the most notable and respected English novelists of the Victorian Era. His penetrating novels on political, social and gender issues of his day have placed him among such nineteenth century literary icons as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Trollope penned 47 novels in his career, in addition to various short stories, travel books and biographies. «Cousin Henry» was first published in 1879, and has been called one of Trollope's more experimental short novels. Protagonist Indefer Jones is forced to choose an heir to his estate due to his ailing health. Jones is torn between logic and social conventions to choose the heir, as the obvious candidate happens to be his niece, but tradition dictates that it should be a man that shares his surname. The tale follows the conflict between heirs, and the dramatic happenings that ensue.

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Despite a decreasing popularity throughout his career, Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) has become one of the most notable and respected English novelists of the Victorian Era. His penetrating novels on political, social and gender issues of his day have placed him among such nineteenth century literary icons as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Trollope penned 47 novels in his career, in addition to various short stories, travel books and biographies. «The American Senator,» published in 1875, is one of Trollope's less-known works, but serves as a valuable depiction of rural English life in the nineteenth century. The story presents Arabella Trefoil, the unabashed, fortune-hungry fiancé of British legal secretary, John Morton. The pair return from a trip to Washington in the company of an American Senator, Elias Gotobed, who later translates his experiences abroad into a commentary on the absurd and irrational aspects of English society.

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This illustrated version of the Last Chronicle of Barset is the final novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the «Chronicles of Barsetshire» and concerns an indigent but learned clergyman, the Reverend Josiah Crawley, the curate of Hogglestock, as he stands accused of stealing a cheque.

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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the ?uvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 52400 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: ? The Way We Live Now ? Can You Forgive Her? ? Barchester Towers ? The Warden ? The Small House at Allington ? The Last Chronicle of Barset ? Doctor Thorne ? A Ride Across Palestine ? The Eustace Diamonds ? Framley Parsonage ? An Autobiography of ? Phineas Redux ? The Prime Minister ? Phineas Finn ? He Knew He Was Right ? The Duke's Children ? Castle Richmond ? Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship ? Miss Mackenzie ? The Claverings ? Orley Farm ? Barchester Towers ? The Macdermots of Ballycloran ? Ayala's Angel ? Rachel Ray ? Lady Anna ? Aaron Trow ? North America ? The Mistletoe Bough ? An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids ? The Belton Estate ? The Courtship of Susan Bell ? The American Senator ? The Fixed Period ? Nina Balatka ? The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson ? An Old Man's Love ? Is He Popenjoy? ? The Three Clerks ? The Vicar of Bullhampton ? Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners) ? The Life of Cicero. ? The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box ? Kept in the Dark ? An Eye for an Eye ? The Life of Cicero, Volume One ? The Bertrams ? Dr. Wortle's School ? The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne ? The O'Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo ? The Kellys and the O'Kellys ? Travelling Sketches ? John Caldigate ? Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush-Life ? La Mere Bauche ? The Chateau of Prince Polignac ? George Walker at Suez ? Mr. Scarborough's Family ? Marion Fay ? Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite ? Hunting Sketches ? Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, Jamaica ? The House of Heine Brothers, in Munich ? La Vendée ? Studies in Early Victorian LiteratureFrederic Harrison ? etc.

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