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Barchester Towers
Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. Trollope was of course interested in the Church, that pillar of Victorian society - in its susceptibility to corruption, hypocrisy, and blinkered conservatism - but the Barsetshire novels are no more `ecclesiastical' than his Palliser novels are `political'. It is the behaviour of the individuals within a power structure that interests him. In this novel Trollope continues the story of Mr Harding andhis daughter Eleanor, adding to his cast of characters that oily symbol of progress Mr Slope, the hen-pecked Dr Proudie, and the amiable and breezy Stanhope family. The central questions of this moral comedy - Who will be warden? Who will be dean? Who will marry Eleanor? - are skilfully handled withthat subtlety of ironic observation that has won Trollope such a wide and appreciative readership.
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Selected short stories
\"Popular and prolific, Anthony Trollope wrote 47 novels as well as dozens of short stories that provide fascinating insights into Victorian life, behavior, and morals. A careful observer of people and places, Trollope created realistic, unsentimental depictions of everyday life that offer enduring entertainment as well as vivid reflections of the attitudes of his era. These six stories originally appeared in periodicals, and Trollope may have drawn upon his experiences as an editor in writing \"Mary Gresley,\" concerning a young woman with literary ambitions, and \"The Spotted Dog,\" chronicling a harried scholar's attempts to work in peace. Christmas stories include \"The Mistletoe Bough,\" a tale of a broken engagement, and \"Not If I Know It,\" relating a family falling-out. Courtship and class distinctions receive wry treatments in \"The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne,\" in which a well-to-do suitor receives his comeuppance, and \"The Two Heroines of Plumplington,\" a tale of romance stymied by parental snobbery\"-- Provided by publisher.
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