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Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora - forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast fortune. In asking his readers to pardon Alice for her transgression of the Victorian moral code, Trollope created a telling and wide-ranging account of the social world of his day.

The Duke's Children is the last of Trollope's six Palliser novels and concludes the story of Plantagenet Palliser, former Prime Minister and latterly Duke of Omnium. Lady Glencora is dead and the Duke, widowed and grieving, is left with the responsibility of three difficult children. His sons are sent down from university in disgrace and the Duke is further dismayed when his daughter Lady Mary and his eldest son Silverbridge both propose to marry out of the English nobility. One by one the Duke's dearest wishes are thwarted, yet at the same time he discovers how parents can learn from their children, and is rescued from his own inflexible pride and snobbery by the strength of his private affections. As Birch remarks in her introduction, 'of all the many late developers in Trollope's fiction, Palliser is the most impressive'. The Duke's Children (1880) is resonant with the memories of the Duke of Omnium who had come to be more than a fiction to Trollope, 'so much do I love the man whose character I had endeavoured to portray'.

This book centres on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding's d

The first of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, THE WARDEN explores the ethical dilemma of the Rev. Septimus Harding, the gentle, cello-playing warden of a charitable home for elderly men. Unjustly accused of receiving money to which he is not entitled, the modest and self-doubting Harding insists on resigning, feeling that his honor has been tarnished. Meanwhile, his repentant accuser (an overzealous surgeon) marries Rev. Harding's daughter, Eleanor.

When shrewd and poor Lizzie Greystock marries she is fully aware of her wealthy husband's approaching death.

«Trollope es un preciso retratista de la sociedad de su tiempo, pero lo es específicamente de una parte de ella: del conjunto de la gente corriente» José María Guelbenzu«Si le gusta la obra de Austen

Una magistral novela contra la corrupción y la codicia. Augustus Melmotte, un banquero sin escrúpulos recién llegado a Londres, vende a sus inversores un producto sin valor y crea una burbuja qu

Trollope es uno de los grandes maestros de la edad de oro de la literatura inglesa, la que dio autores de la categoría de Jane Austen, Dickens o Thackeray. El custodio es la historia del reverendo Harding, un hombre al que nada le falta para merecer el calificativo de alma bendita. Es el encargado de velar por la conservacion de un asilo y los ancianos que lo habitan. Lo ultimo que se imagina es que entre sus manos esta a punto de estallar un escandalo que arramblara con la tranquilidad de todo el condado de Barsetshire. Gracias a Trollope conocemos mejor el corazon humano. Henry James

En los cuentos reunidos en Noviazgo y matrimonio asistimos a los desvelos, abnegaciones y ardides de unas jóvenes casaderas en general más preocupadas por su felicidad que por su respetabilidad, a pesar de que no todas dispongan de los medios para alcanzarla.Noviazgo y matrimonio cuenta historias de amores aplazados, de relaciones equivocas, de compromisos impuestos y de heroinas capaces de manipular a sus pretendientes o a sus padres con tal de vencer los prejuicios sociales o de defender su libertad de decision.

Anthony Trollope es el más prolífico de la nómina de grandes escritores victorianos. Con su forma elusiva de contar los hechos, su tratamiento cómico de las situaciones y el juego que entabla la voz narrativa con el lector, Trollope demuestra ser un escritor mucho mas sutil de lo que tradicionalmente se ha considerado, y se convierte en un narrador sibilino, perspicaz y atemporal de la condicion humana. Las torres de Barchester pertenece a la serie de las seis novelas de Barset, que Trollope situa en el condado imaginario de Barsetshire. Ambientada en el mundo rural clerical de la Inglaterra victoriana de mediados del siglo XIX, que recibe frecuentes y amenazantes visitas del mundo exterior, encarnado en la gran metropoli de Londres, esa mezcla de dos mundos mas o menos opuestos y enfrentados da pie a un amplio abanico de personajes que interactuan entre si dando lugar a una serie de conflictos en forma de relaciones amorosas, disputas politicas y sociales, problemas economicos y algunos dilemas morales, todo ello tamizado por el humor mas o menos satirico con que el autor presenta las distintas situaciones. Esta edicion ofrece la primera traduccion española de esta novela.

Doctor Thomas Thorne is guardian to his beautiful but impecunious niece, Mary, whose parentage he has always kept secret. Mary falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the dwindling Greshamsbury estate, but when Frank proposes, his parents insist that he must marry for money to restore his familys fortunes. Frank is torn between his love for Mary and his sense of familial duty, whilst Doctor Thorne must decide whether to reveal the secret he has kept for so long. In Doctor Thorne Trollope explores themes of money and society and the conflict between tradition and the need for change. Part of the Chronicles of Barsetshire series on which Trollopes reputation primarily rests, it outsold all of his other novels during his lifetime. This gorgeous edition features an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collectors Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collectors Library are books to love and treasure.