Trollope
A Biography
Published on 31. October 1991
Book
Hardback
596 pages
978-0-19-812627-0 (ISBN)
Description
This authoritative biography from the distinguished Trollopian and editor of Trollope's Letters, draws a picture of an engaging, contradictory, and extraordinary man and writer. N. John Hall, alive to his subject's shortcomings as well as to his startling powers, contends that Trollope was a comic genius who, for all his productivity, was a writer of care and judgement, one who left behind him more good novels than any other writer in the language. Hall, drawing on Trollope's nearly seventy books, along with all the relevant historical evidence, writes with an unparalleled knowledge of his subject, vividly and with humour, and presents a focused and penetrating portrait of the author.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Illustrations
plates
16 pp plates, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
1123 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-812627-0 (9780198126270)
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Content
Part 1 Harrow and London: gentle origins; Harrow day boy; Wykehamist; Harrow weald; famous mother; St Martins-le-Grand; aspirations. Part 2 Ireland: Banagher and good fortune; marriage and authorship; conservative liberal; the West Country and "The Warden"; Egypt and the Holy Land; the West Indies. Part 3 Waltham Cross: Waltham House and the "Cornhill"; literary London; North America; almost a national institution; Pallisers and periodicals; farewells and "Saint Pauls Magazine"; other politics; Australia and New Zealand. Part 4 Montagu Square: "The Way We Live Now"; Pallisers again; "An Autobiography"; South Africa; "Popenjoy" and "Ayala"; extending the range. Part 5 South Harting: a country residence; a late masterwork; an old man; last days.