Anthony Trollope wrote The Way We Live Now to study what he termed “the commercial profligacy of the age,” and he succeeded in publishing the most savage attack on human nature since William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (1848). He viewed… Read More ›
The fifth novel in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire sequence, The Small House at Allington introduced Lily Dale, the protagonist who would become his readers’ favorite. It is a sad tale, for which Trollope makes no excuse, although he acts more tenderly… Read More ›
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