The Small House At Allington

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : LA CASE Books
Page : 1227 pages
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Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Fiction
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The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope Pdf

The Small House at Allington is the fifth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It first appeared as a serial in the 1862 July to December edition of the Cornhill Magazine, and ended its run in the July to December edition of the following year. It was later published 1864 as a two volume novel. It is the fifth book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, preceded by Framley Parsonage and followed by The Last Chronicle of Barset. 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, is the bachelor Squire of Allington, Christopher Dale. Dale's mother having died, he has allocated the Small House, rent free, to his widowed sister-in-law and her daughters Isabella ("Bell") and Lilian ("Lily").

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547398554

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The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope Pdf

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, is the bachelor Squire of Allington, Christopher Dale. Dale's mother having died, he has allocated the Small House, rent free, to his widowed sister-in-law and her daughters Isabella ("Bell") and Lilian ("Lily"). Lily has for a long time been secretly loved by John Eames, a junior clerk at the Income Tax Office, while Bell is in love with the local doctor, James Crofts. The handsome and personable, somewhat mercenary Adolphus Crosbie is introduced into the circle by the squire's nephew, Bernard Dale... Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters. Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, but he regained the esteem of critics by the mid-twentieth century.

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : London : Chapman and Hall
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPAR6

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Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope Pdf

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10750751

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Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope Pdf

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Almshouses
ISBN : 1508565104

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Anthony Trollope, Chronicles of Barsetshire Books 1 2 3 by Anthony Trollope Pdf

Book One: The Warden -- Mr Septimus Harding, elderly warden of Hiram's Hospital and Precentor of Barchester Cathedral. The story concerns the impact upon Harding and his circle when a zealous young reformer, John Bold, launches a campaign to expose the disparity in the apportionment of the charity's income between its object, the bedesmen, and its officer, Mr Harding. John Bold embarks on this campaign out of a spirit of public duty despite his romantic involvement with Eleanor and previously cordial relations with Mr Harding. Book Two: Barchester Towers -- The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, also a clergyman, will gain the office in his place. Instead, owing to the passage of the power of patronage to a new Prime Minister, a newcomer, Bishop Proudie, gains the see. His wife, Mrs Proudie, exercises an undue influence over the new bishop, making herself unpopular with right-thinking members of the clergy and their families. Book Three: Doctor Thorne -- The romantic problems of Mary Thorne, niece of Doctor Thomas Thorne (a member of a junior branch of the family of Mr Wilfred Thorne who appeared in the previous novel), and Frank Gresham, the only son of the local squire. Major themes of the book are the social pain and exclusion caused by illegitimacy, the nefarious effects of the demon drink, and the difficulties of romantic attachments outside one's social class.

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066394844

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The Warden by Anthony Trollope Pdf

The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly warden of Hiram's Hospital and precentor of Barchester Cathedral, in the fictional county of Barsetshire. Hiram's Hospital is an almshouse supported by a medieval charitable bequest to the Diocese of Barchester. Mr Harding was appointed to this position through the patronage of his old friend the Bishop of Barchester, who is also the father of Archdeacon Grantly to whom Harding's older daughter, Susan, is married. The warden, who lives with his remaining child, an unmarried younger daughter Eleanor, performs his duties conscientiously. The story concerns the impact upon Harding and his circle when a zealous young reformer, John Bold, launches a campaign to expose the disparity in the apportionment of the charity's income between its object, the bedesmen, and its officer, Mr Harding.

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026882459

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Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope Pdf

Mark Robarts is a young vicar settled in the village of Framley in Barsetshire with his wife and children. Mark has ambitions to further his career and begins to seek connections in the county's high society. He is soon preyed upon by local Whig Member of Parliament Mr. Sowerby to guarantee a substantial loan, which Mark in a moment of weakness agrees to do, even though he does not have the means and knows Sowerby to be a notorious debtor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Barchester Towers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89006928170

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Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Way We Live Now by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place)
ISBN : OXFORD:504372177

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The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope Pdf

Author : Professor Deborah Denenholz Morse
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472404268

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Reforming Trollope by Professor Deborah Denenholz Morse Pdf

Trollope the reformer and the reformation of Trollope scholarship in relation to gender, race, and genre are the intertwined subjects of eminent Trollopian Deborah Denenholz Morse’s radical rethinking of Anthony Trollope. Beginning with a history of Trollope’s critical reception, Morse traces the ways in which Trollope’s responses to the political and social upheavals of the 1860s and 1870s are reflected in his novels. She argues that as Trollope’s ideas about gender and race evolved over those two crucial decades, his politics became more liberal. The first section of the book analyzes these changes in terms of genre. As Morse shows, the novelist subverts and modernizes the quintessential English genre of the pastoral in the wake of Darwin in the early 1860s novel The Small House at Allington. Following the Second Reform Act, he reimagines the marriage plot along new class lines in the early 1870s in Lady Anna. The second section focuses upon gender. In the wake of the Second Reform Bill and the agitations for women's rights in the 1860s and 1870s, Trollope reveals the tragedy of primogeniture and male privilege in Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite and the viciousness of the marriage market in Ayala's Angel. The final section of Reforming Trollope centers upon race. Trollope's response to the Jamaica Rebellion and the ensuing Governor Eyre Controversy in England is revealed in the tragic marriage of a quintessential English gentleman to a dark beauty from the Empire's dominions. The American Civil War and its aftermath led to Trollope's insistence that English identity include the history of English complicity in the black Atlantic slave trade and American slavery, a history Trollope encodes in the creole discourses of the late novel Dr. Wortle's School. Reforming Trollope is a transformative examination of an author too long identified as the epitome of the complacent English gentleman.

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001105573831

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The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope Pdf

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112056506881

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The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope Pdf

Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4690899

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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock Pdf