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Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

Author of Barchester Towers

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About the Author

Anthony Trollope was born in London, England on April 24, 1815. In 1834, he became a junior clerk in the General Post Office, London. In 1841, he became a deputy postal surveyor in Banagher, Ireland. He was sent on many postal missions ending up as a surveyor general in the post office outside of show more London. His first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, was published in 1847. His other works included Castle Richmond, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Lady Anna, The Two Heroines of Plumplington, and The Noble Jilt. He died after suffering from a paralytic stroke on December 6, 1882. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series

Works by Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers (1857) — Author — 4,899 copies
The Warden (1855) — Author — 4,345 copies
The Way We Live Now (1874) 2,840 copies
Can You Forgive Her? (1973) 2,341 copies
Doctor Thorne (1858) 2,078 copies
The Eustace Diamonds (1871) 1,978 copies
Phineas Finn (1869) 1,888 copies
Framley Parsonage (1861) 1,843 copies
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) — Author — 1,793 copies
The Small House at Allington (1862) 1,776 copies
The Prime Minister (1875) 1,285 copies
Phineas Redux (1873) 1,198 copies
The Duke's Children (1880) 1,169 copies
He Knew He Was Right (1869) 983 copies
Rachel Ray (1863) 728 copies
Orley Farm (1861) 695 copies
An Autobiography (1883) 578 copies
The American Senator (1877) 556 copies
Dr. Wortle's School (1881) 490 copies
Lady Anna (1874) 485 copies
The Claverings (1866) 475 copies
Castle Richmond (1860) 433 copies
Miss Mackenzie (1865) 417 copies
The Belton Estate (1866) 397 copies
Cousin Henry (1879) 361 copies
Ayala's Angel (1880) 353 copies
The Three Clerks (1857) 352 copies
The Warden / Barchester Towers (1936) — Author — 350 copies
The Vicar of Bullhampton (1870) 344 copies
The Bertrams (1859) 311 copies
The Kellys and the O'Kellys (1848) — Author — 307 copies
Is He Popenjoy? (1877) 295 copies
Ralph the Heir (1871) 289 copies
An Eye for an Eye (1879) 280 copies
An Old Man's Love (1884) — Author — 274 copies
Mr. Scarborough's Family (1882) 260 copies
John Caldigate (1879) 239 copies
Kept in the Dark (1882) 230 copies
The Golden Lion of Granpère (1872) 222 copies
The Fixed Period (1882) 197 copies
Marion Fay (1881) 196 copies
La Vendée (1850) 188 copies
The Landleaguers (1883) 176 copies
Linda Tressel (1993) 151 copies
North America (1862) 149 copies
Nina Balatka (1867) 147 copies
The Pallisers [abridged] (1974) 51 copies
Thackeray (1879) 45 copies
Hunting Sketches (1934) 42 copies
Christmas at Thompson Hall (1978) 39 copies
The New Zealander (1969) 35 copies
Later Short Stories (1995) 28 copies
An Editor's Tales (1981) 27 copies
Barchester Towers (Volume 1 of 2) (1910) — Author — 27 copies
The Bedside Barsetshire (1949) 25 copies
Aaron Trow (1861) 23 copies
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1/2) (1951) — Author — 20 copies
South Africa (1973) 20 copies
The Last Chronicle of Barset (2/2) (1906) — Author — 20 copies
Early Short Stories (1994) 20 copies
North America, Volume 1 (1968) 19 copies
North America, Volume 2 (1987) 17 copies
The Commentaries of Caesar (1875) 16 copies
Alice Dugdale (1979) 15 copies
A Ride Across Palestine (1861) 15 copies
The Warden / Barchester Towers / Doctor Thorne (2002) — Author — 14 copies
Australia and New Zealand (1873) 14 copies
The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box (1861) — Author — 13 copies
The Trollope Reader (1947) 12 copies
Returning Home (1861) 11 copies
The Courtship of Susan Bell (2004) 11 copies
Australia. Vol. 1 of 2 (1987) 11 copies
Christmas at Kirkby Cottage (1870) 11 copies
London Tradesmen (2003) 11 copies
Australia. Vol. 2 of 2 (1987) 10 copies
Lord Palmerston (2003) 10 copies
The Edge 9 copies
Orley Farm: Volume 2 (2008) 8 copies
Travelling Sketches (1866) 8 copies
Mrs. General Talboys (2004) 8 copies
Australia (1967) 7 copies
George Walker at Suez (2005) 7 copies
Orley Farm: Volume 1 (2003) 6 copies
Novels and Stories (1946) 6 copies
The Lady of Launay (1878) 6 copies
Did He Steal It? (1952) 5 copies
The Noble Jilt (2013) 5 copies
The Mistletoe Bough (2008) 5 copies
La Mère Bauche (2006) 5 copies
Malachi's Cove (1864) 4 copies
Orley Farm: Volume 3 (2003) 4 copies
The Saint Pauls magazine (1981) 3 copies
Short Fiction 3 copies
An autobiography, v.I (2015) 3 copies
Notes on the Old Drama (1988) 3 copies
The Last Austrian Who Left Venice (2010) — Author — 3 copies
The Gentle Euphemia (1866) 2 copies
The last chronicle of Barset (1/3) — Author — 1 copy
Auge um Auge 1 copy
Cecilia 1 copy
The Noble Jilt / Did He Steal It? (1981) — Author — 1 copy
The Warden [BBC Radio] (2009) 1 copy
Rachel Ray: Volume 2 (1999) 1 copy
Lotta Schmidt (2018) 1 copy
Lady Anna, Vol. I (2011) 1 copy
The last chronicle of Barset (3/3) — Author — 1 copy

Associated Works

The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998) — Contributor — 192 copies
The Portable Victorian Reader (1972) — Contributor — 176 copies
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) — Contributor — 151 copies
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Contributor — 147 copies
The Oxford Book of Villains (1992) — Contributor — 136 copies
A Literary Christmas: An Anthology (2013) — Contributor — 134 copies
Outstanding Short Stories [Penguin Readers] (1982) — Contributor — 98 copies
The Treasury of English Short Stories (1985) — Contributor — 85 copies
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Contributor — 74 copies
Selected Stories from the 19th Century (2000) — Contributor — 73 copies
The Barchester Chronicles [1982 TV serial] (1982) — Original story — 67 copies
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories (1940) — Contributor — 66 copies
Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology (1996) — Contributor — 48 copies
Pearl S. Buck's Book of Christmas (1974) — Contributor — 45 copies
Great English Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (2005) — Contributor — 39 copies
The Way We Live Now [2001 TV mini series] (2001) — Original book — 38 copies
Selected English Short Stories (First Series) (1914) — Contributor — 36 copies
The Oxford Book of English Love Stories (1996) — Contributor — 35 copies
He Knew He Was Right [2004 TV mini series] (1963) — Original novel — 29 copies
A Treasury of Old-Fashioned Christmas Stories (2006) — Contributor — 29 copies
Short Stories of the Sea (1984) — Contributor — 27 copies
The Book Lovers (1976) — Contributor — 26 copies
Venice Stories (2018) — Contributor — 25 copies
The World's Greatest Books Volume 08 Fiction (1910) — Contributor — 24 copies
The Pallisers [1974 TV mini-series] (2000) — Original story — 24 copies
Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories (1998) — Contributor — 24 copies
Cuentos de amor victorianos (2004) — Contributor — 21 copies
Great English Short Stories (1930) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories (2004) — Contributor — 20 copies
Doctor Thorne [2016 TV miniseries] (2014) — Original Novel — 19 copies
A Century of Thrillers from Poe to Arlen (First Series) (1934) — Contributor — 18 copies
Stories by English Authors (1902) — Contributor — 15 copies
Penguin Christmas Classics (2016) 13 copies
Stories by English Authors: Italy (2012) — Contributor — 11 copies
Selected English short stories XIX & XX centuries (1914) — Contributor — 11 copies
A Vintage Christmas (Vintage Minis) (2018) — Contributor — 9 copies
A Treasury of Great Short Stories — Contributor — 7 copies
The New Windmill Book of Stories from Different Genres (1998) — Contributor — 7 copies
The Pallisers (1975) — Original novels — 7 copies
An Adult's Garden of Bloomers (1966) — Contributor — 7 copies
Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship (2009) — Contributor — 6 copies
The Trials of Love (1990) — Contributor — 6 copies
Evergreen Stories (1998) — Contributor — 5 copies
Cuentos victorianos de Navidad (2017) — Contributor — 5 copies
Collected Classics, Vol. 2 (2000) — Contributor — 5 copies
Great Love Scenes from Famous Novels (1943) — Contributor — 5 copies
Six Short Stories (1991) — Contributor — 4 copies
Half-Hours with Great Novelists (1884) — Contributor — 4 copies
The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994) — Contributor — 4 copies
Great Love Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (2016) — Contributor — 4 copies
Famous Stories of Five Centuries (1934) — Contributor — 4 copies
Loves and Deaths (1972) — Contributor — 4 copies
The Pallisers: Set One [1974 TV serial] (2000) — Original story — 3 copies
A Christmas Anthology (2011) — Contributor — 3 copies
Barchester Towers: A Victorian Comedy in Three Acts (1938) — Original Novel — 3 copies
The Pallisers: Set Three [1974 TV serial] (2001) — Original story — 3 copies
A Reader for Writers — Contributor — 2 copies
Tales of Two Countries (1955) — Contributor — 2 copies
Classic British Short Stories (2009) — Contributor — 2 copies
A Book of Narratives (1917) — Contributor — 2 copies
Short Stories of the Past (1950) — Contributor — 2 copies
Best Railway Stories (1969) — Contributor — 2 copies
Short Stories Retold - Book 1 — Contributor — 1 copy
Country Living Magazine Christmas Stories (1995) — Contributor — 1 copy
Sapte povesti de calatorie — Contributor — 1 copy
The Pallisers: Set Two [1974 TV serial] (2000) — Author — 1 copy
Short Stories: Old and New — Contributor — 1 copy

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Reviews

My wife and I watched the three-episode dramatisation of Doctor Thorne on ABC television recently, and we found it very unsatisfying, with a too-obvious plot-line, too easily resolved.

But as it’s the third book in Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Chronicles, and having enjoyed the first two volumes so much, I was curious to read the book and see how well or how poorly the television series had handled the story. I’m glad I did so, because the answer is “very badly”. The novel is far more nuanced and interesting and much less schmaltzy-romantic than the dramatisation.

The basic story, though, is the same: Thomas Thorne is an honest, hard-working doctor who has been entrusted with acting as a financial agent by the local squire and his once-wealthy family the Greshams, who have fallen on hard times —well, hard times for those used to living on the fat of the land. They are deeply in debt, primarily to Sir Richard Scatcherd, a self-made millionaire who started life as a humble stone mason.

The main interest in the story arises from Mary, Doctor Thorne’s niece—the illegitimate child of his elder brother. Mary is a quiet, decent young woman whom the doctor has raised as though she were his own daughter. She has been allowed to make friends and spend a good deal of time with the Gresham children as she grows up.

The squire’s heir, Francis (Frank) needs to marry a wealthy wife to save his family from the humiliation of losing all of their property and influence as their debts spiral out of control. But of course, Frank has fallen in love with

2 Mary Thorne, who is both penniless and illegitimate. A mighty battle thus ensues as the family strives to prevent Frank from making an injudicious liaison with Mary. They make every attempt to get him to ‘marry money’, and Mary is pressured from every side to reject Frank’s advances, which she has not encouraged.

The plot thickens as we discover more of Mary’s origins and her relationship to Sir Richard Scatcherd, who is dying of self-induced alcoholic poisoning. Ignorant of this relationship, he makes a will which will bequeath all of his enormous wealth to ‘my sister’s eldest child’ if his own son dies young.

Well, you can see where the story is going. It is told in far too facile a manner in the television series, reducing the plot to a caricature of ‘rich boy falls for poor girl, can’t marry her, poor girl becomes rich, everyone lives happily ever after’. But the book, as I say, is far more nuanced, and depicts the long struggles of conscience which both Mary and her uncle Doctor Thorne have to deal with.

There’s quite a bit of Trollope’s sly satirical humour in the novel, too, as he picks apart the pretensions of his era. Forget the television series, read the book.
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davidrgrigg | 64 other reviews | Mar 23, 2024 |
A delightful and funny novel which made me wonder how much one can put Trollope's social observations into a current state of affairs if it comes to schemes to gain power and influence. I love his insight into the human psyche, both of men and women. Parts reminded me of Woody Allen and how he depicts speechlessness and confusion in otherwise very articulate persons and how one’s own perception so much differs from that of others.

Reading in an illustrated, carefully edited small full cloth book with gilded edges and ribbon page marker was an extra delight.… (more)
 
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Buchmerkur | 106 other reviews | Mar 17, 2024 |
Reason read: 1st Quarter Read, Reading 1001
This is a story of epic study of pride, forgiveness and its lack, and pathological jealousy. Trevalyn could be diagnosed with paranoid personality disorder. The story has many characters and subplots and I read that Trollope did not really like this story. I think the many characters and subplots were stronger than the main story or at least gave the reader relief from the irritating Louis. This was a retelling of Othello/Shakespeare.
 
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Kristelh | 28 other reviews | Mar 2, 2024 |
A little hard to read in beginning due to language and long passages that appeared dull. But at the end, the book gives reader much to think about and the depth of the story and the main character stays with you.
 
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