Anthony Trollope
61) 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...
63) 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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In Anthony Trollope's Christmas at Thompson Hall, a British matron is intent on traveling to her ancestral home for Christmas Eve in spite of her husband's sore throat. In an attempt to alleviate his symptoms, she raids the hotel pantry to make a mustard-poultice to apply to his throat. When she gets lost on the way back to her room, she makes a terrible mistake that will put a British gentleman's sense of charity to the test. This timeless holiday...
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He, Knew He Was, Right describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband exacerbated by the stubbornness of a willful wife. As is common with Trollope's works, there are also, several substantial subplots. Trollope makes constant allusions to Shakespeare's Othello throughout the novel.
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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection of Anthony Trollope's complete works.
Contents:
Chronicles of Barsetshire:
The Warden
Barchester Towers
Doctor Thorne
Framley Parsonage
The Small House at Allington
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Palliser Novels:
Can You Forgive Her?
Phineas Finn
The Eustace Diamonds
Phineas Redux
The Prime Minister
The Duke's Children
Irish Novels:
The Macdermots of Ballycloran
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
Castle...
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"The Small House at Allington" is the fifth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It enjoyed a revival in popularity in the early 1990s when the British prime minister, John Major, declared it as his favourite book. The Small House at Allington concerns the Dale family, who live in the "Small House", a dower house intended for the widowed mother (Dowager) of the owner of the estate. The landowner, in this instance,...
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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...
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Isa Heine, daughter of the junior partner of Heine Brothers, bankers in Munich, fell in love with their young English clerk Herbert Onslow. Herbert's father had promised him a partnership in the firm, and since his income made marriage impossible before this should be obtained, his apprenticeship seemed endless to the impatient lover. Although Isa would have been content to wait, she sympathised with his restlessness and courageously approached her...
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The Chronicles of Barsetshire (or Barchester Chronicles) is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire (located roughly in the West Country) and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social maneuverings that go on among and between them. Together, the series is regarded by many as Trollope's...
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"Can You Forgive Her?" is a novel by Anthony Trollope. It is the first of six novels in the "Palliser" series. The novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three strong women: Alice Vavasor, her cousin Glencora Palliser, and her aunt Arabella Greenow. Early on, Alice asks the question "What should a woman do with her life?" This theme repeats itself in the dilemmas faced by the other women in the novel. Lady...
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Excerpt: "That men and women should leave their homes at the end of summer and go somewhere,-though it be only to Margate,-has become a thing so fixed that incomes the most limited are made to stretch themselves to fit the rule, and habits the most domestic allow themselves to be interrupted and set at naught. That we gain much in health there can be no doubt. Our ancestors, with their wives and children, could do without their autumn tour; but our...
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After his post office job and a failed run for Parliament, Trollope set up shop as a magazine editor. These stories of the publishing trade, gathered in 1870, reveal his bawdy side: "The Turkish Bath," "Mary Gresley," "Josephine de Montmorenci," "The Panjandrum," "The Spotted Duo," and "Mrs. Brumby."
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The Rev. Augustus Horne, on a holiday in Belgium, visited the former quarters of General Chasse the defeated leader at the siege of Antwerp, where one of the exhibits was a pair of the General's enormous trousers. Mr. Horne, who was also a large man, in a spirit of mischief decided to we which man was the larger. Removing his own trousers, he was about to step into the General's when a group of English women tourists was heard to approach. He hurriedly...
78) El doctor Thorne
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Un honrado médico rural de sólidos principios y su sobrina Mary provocan una honda conmoción en la clase alta rural de Barchester, representada por las ostentosas familias Gresham y De Courcy. La mansión de los Gresham atraviesa problemas, el mayor de los cuales es el empeño de Frank, el heredero, en casarse con Mary.
Animosa, leal y sincera, Mary no posee nada de valor, salvo ella misma. A su alrededor girarán las damas de ambas familias,...
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The tales in this collection, as with those of Tales of All Countries, encompass a variety of themes and are set in a number of different lands. Lotta Schmidt herself is an attractive young woman of Vienna, whose heart is melted by the sensitive zither-playing of her admirer Herr Crippel. The two generals, in the story of that name, are soldiers on opposing sides in the American Civil War. Father Giles of Ballymoy is an hospitable Irish priest whose...