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The Vicar of Bullhampton is an 1870 novel by Anthony Trollope. It is made up of three intertwining subplots: the courtship of a young woman by two suitors; a feud between the titular Broad church vicar and a Low church nobleman, abetted by a Methodist minister; and the vicar's attempt to rehabilitate a young woman who has gone astray. Trollope expected his depiction of a fallen woman to be controversial, and unusually for him wrote a preface defending...
42) Hunting Sketches
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This quick read by Anthony Trollope paints a quaint and humorous picture of fox hunting in rural Victorian England. It's a relatively short look at the cast of characters in a traditional fox hunt.
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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 Bell," "The Chateau of Prince Polignac," "The Mistletoe Bough," and "The Man Who Kept his Money in a Box."
45) La Mere Bauche
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La Mere Bauche, an autocratic innkeeper in the Eastern Pyrenees, was excessively ambitious for her only son's future. She had adopted an orphan girl, Marie Calvert, and brought her up as a daughter of the house until she learned that her son also loved the girl. The marriage would have made impossible her dreams for Adolphe's success in life, and she sent him away for a year's travel, planning to marry Marie to an elderly habitué of the inn, Theodore...
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Coping with ill-iced claret, rotten walnuts, and withered apples, British Postal Service employee and successful Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope sailed aboard the Atrato from the English port of Southampton to Kingston, Jamaica, in November, 1858 to survey land and conclude treaties in the West Indies and Central America for the English government. In the course of his extended sojourn, he also wrote a book -- not about official business but rather...
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The Macdermots of Ballycloran is a novel by Anthony Trollope. It was Trollope's first published novel, which he began in September 1843 and completed by June 1845. The narrative of The Macdermots of Ballycloran 'chronicles the tragic demise of a small Catholic landowning family in the Protestant-dominated Ireland of the mid nineteenth century. It focuses on the struggle of Thady Macdermot to keep his sinking property afloat. Thady lives with his father...
48) 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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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,...
50) Is He Popenjoy?
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Written in 1878, this novel was inspired by one of the scandals of the 1870s, concerning a pretender to the Tichborne baronetcy. The real heroine of this novel is Mary Germain, vivacious, naive and rebellious in her marriage to Lord George Germain, a true and truly autocratic English gentleman.
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Mr. Robinson comes upon a party of travellers, the Greenes, consisting of one older man, a young woman, and a much younger woman, the lovely Sophonsiba. Early on in the story, Robinson is apprised of the fact that one of the seven boxes with which they are journeying to Italy is full of jewels and English sovereigns. Robinson is not particularly pleased to be the recipient of this information, and it would seem that the next thing to happen was this...
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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.
53) Aaron Trow
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Aaron Trow, because of his murder of a man during a strike in England, is shipped off to a prison in Bermuda. He escapes and breaks into the house of a pastor and his daughter on a night when the daughter is alone. He demands food, drink and money. She gives him the first two but protests she hasn't a penny to give him. He gets physical and they have a knock-down, drag-out brawl until the girl's fiancé comes to the rescue. Trow escapes and a posse...
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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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"The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson" is a humorous novel by the renowned author Anthony Trollope. George Robinson is a partner in an advertising firm with his partners Mr. Brown and Mr. Jones. Robinson however feels stifled by the idiosyncrasies of his two partners. The book is written in a memoir format tracing the roots of the three partners and how the unlikely trio ended up as partners in the advertising trade.
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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.
57) Ayala's Angel
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Ayala's Angel is a novel written by English author Anthony Trollope between 25 April and 24 September 1878, although it was not published for two years. It was written as a stand-alone novel rather than as part of a series, though several of the minor characters appear in other novels by Trollope. The plot focuses on two orphaned sisters, Lucy and Ayala Dormer, Ayala especially, and their trials, with first their relatives, and then of the heart,...
58) 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.
59) 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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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,...