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Mr. William Whittlestaff was strolling very slowly up and down the long walk at his countryseat in Hampshire, thinking of the contents of a letter, which he held crushed up within his trousers' pocket. He always breakfasted exactly at nine, and the letters were supposed to be brought to him at a quarter past. The postman was really due at his hall-door at a quarter before nine; but though he had lived in the same house for above fifteen years, and...
2) Cousin Henry
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"Cousin Henry" was first published in 1879, and has been called one of Trollope's more experimental short novels. 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...
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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?
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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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The story is subtitled "Landlords and Tenants" and does not betray its implied promise. The ennobled O'Kellys under the leadership of Lord Ballindine are distantly related to the Kellys, consisting of the mother, who keeps a small town inn and her son and daughters. Both fall in love and run into troubles pressing their suits: Lord Ballindine is rejected by Fanny Wyndham's guardian, Lord Cashel, for being a spendthrift (and that while Cashel's son...
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Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th-century English novelist Anthony Trollope. Cecilia Holt ends her engagement to Sir Francis Geraldine because of his indifference to her; she goes abroad and meets Mr. George Western, who has been jilted by a beautiful girl. They marry, but she does not tell him she has been previously engaged, though he has told her his story. When Western is informed of the previous engagement by Sir Francis, he leaves his...
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Anthony Trollope's 1875 novel, "The Way We Live Now", is a biting satire of the wealthy and powerful in Victorian England. Augustus Melmotte, a wealthy financier moves to London and begins to gather investors for an American railway venture. When his daughter Marie takes up with the dissolute gold-digging aristocrat Felix Carbury, Melmotte steps in to block the union. Multiple subplots involving schemes to move up in society and thwart others from...
8) Marion Fay
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The novel contrasts two love affairs, each involving an aristocrat and a commoner. The subversive Lord Hampstead's plunge into middle class society in his passionate pursuit of Marion Fay, a Quaker and daughter of a City clerk, is balanced by the testing of his radical friend George Roden, a clerk in the General Post Office, whose bizarre experiences among the aristocracy during his courtship of Hampstead's sister Lady Frances Trafford, are employed...
9) Nina Balatka
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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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Capt. John Broughton hoped to be the heir of his wealthy aunt Miss Le Smyrger, and journeyed down to Devonshire to make friends with her. While there he met and fell in love with Patience Woolsworthy, the rector's high-spirited but portionless daughter. Patience returned his love, but indignantly broke her engagement when he attempted to teach her that marriage to him would considerably raise her in the social scale.
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George Walker, in Egypt for his health, went to Suez for a week's sight-seeing and while there was mistaken for an important dignitary named Sir George Walker, whose approaching visit was expected. To his surprise he was invited by a local Arab chieftain to go on an elaborately planned excursion to see the Well of Moses. The morning they were to start the distinguished official arrived, and George was unceremoniously left behind. Nothing daunted,...
12) La Vendée
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An early novel by Trollope, and an interesting account of a period of French history. This is Trollope's only historical novel. Although it was well received, it was written early in his career before he began to enjoy some popularity. It takes place during the Reign of Terror and is one story of Royalists resisting the republicans.
13) John Caldigate
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John Caldigate (1879) possesses in abundance the virtues of Trollope's writing: an engrossing story told by a worldly-wise, kindly, fair-minded narrator, and a tale strong on what Trollope claimed as the leading feature of his novels, "real" characters. But John Caldigate has some striking and distinctive calls on the reader's attention: Australian gold-mining scenes, the prominence given to matters of law and a criminal trial, and the stronger than...
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John Pomfret, traveling down the Guadalquivir in Spain on his way to propose to Marie Daguilar, met the gaudily dressed Marquis d'Almavivas on the boat, and mistook him for a bullfighter. Assuming that such an ignorant fellow knew no English, John examined his costume minutely, even twisting off one of the buttons, and commented volubly to his companion on the improvidence of spending money so dangerously earned on personal adornment. Arriving at...
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Mrs. Thompson, widow of an English civil servant in India, had placed her older daughter Lilian in a boarding school in Le Puy, and with her younger child Mimmy went there to he near her. At their hotel was a courteous and sympathetic Frenchman, M. Lacordaire, whom she took to he the local banker, and whom she came to love. On a sight-seeing trip to the Chateau of Prince Polignac he asked her to marry him, explaining that he was the village tailor,...
16) Returning Home
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1860s short story, telling of young Harry and Fanny Arkwright who have spent four years in Costa Rica. Now they and their baby can return home, but first they have to negotiate an arduous journey to the coast by mule Will any - or all - of them return to England, or will Fanny's oft-repeated plaint of "Poor mamma. I shall never see her!"
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John Scarborough, owner of a large landed property in Hertfordshire, resented the restrictions of the law of entail. He accordingly devised a scheme whereby he was able by a double marriage, one before and one after the birth of his eldest son, to declare him legitimate or not, as the future might make desirable.
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Another of Trollope's stories about love, marriage, and the difficulty of uniting in matrimony. Elizabeth Garrow used to be engaged to marry Rodney Holmes, but it was broken off for some mysterious reason which the former refuses to divulge. All it takes is for Elizabeth's friends and a bough of mistletoe at Christmas to get the ball rolling.
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This short story features a naïve nineteen-year-old called Susan who has led a sheltered life. Her mother is overprotective of her whilst her older sister tends to interfere where she isn't needed. Therefore, when they take on a handsome young lodger, who falls in love with Susan, the courting ritual does not run smoothly.
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The wife of an English general spending the winter in Rome became the center of a literary-artistic and somewhat unconventional coterie. Charles O'Brien, an impressionable young Irish sculptor, made the mistake of assuming that her freedom from prejudice authorised him to make love to her, and was severely snubbed.
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