Three Clerks (edition 1981)

by Anthony Trollope

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Title:	Three Clerks
Authors:	Anthony Trollope
Info:	Dover Pubns (1981), Edition: Facsimile of 1860 ed, Paperback, 497 pages
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Violette62 | Jan 26, 2013 |

Characteristic Trollope, though not of the first rank. The lower echelons of the early Victorian Civil Service live again; family life at Surbiton Cottage is explored with Trollope's typical sensitivity to feminine emotion; the Hon. Undecimus Scott is the kind of nuanced upper-class villain that Dickens could never give us. It will not convert the skeptic, but it will entertain the Trollope true believer.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Anthony Trollope	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Handley, Graham	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Skilton, David	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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All the English world knows, or knows of, that branch of the Civil Service which is popularly called the Weights and Measures.

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This is Trollipe's first important commentary on the contemporary scene. Set in the 1850s, it satirizes the recently instituted Civil Service examinations and financial corruption in dealings on the stock market. The story of the three clerks and the three sisters who became their wives shows Trollope probing and exposing relationships with natural sympathy and insight long before "The Barchester Chronicles" and his political novels.

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