Anthony Trollope

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Published 1800 -1900

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Anthony Trollope - Nina Balatka

A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In this short novel, Trollope moves away from his usual milieu to explore a theme which has universal resonance. — Summary by Anthony Ogus

Anthony Ogus 7 hours 6 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

425

Anthony Trollope - Aaron Trow

What is it like to be a fox hunted by hounds? We find out through the senses of an escaped convict as he struggles to free himself from would-be captors. The struggle is brutal. In the end, we are left wondering which...

Bill Boerst 1 hour 3 minutes

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Historical Fiction

457

Anthony Trollope - Landleaguers

Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land by the Catholic Landleaguers. The Irish Land War has commenced, with the...

Angel5 11 hours 53 minutes

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Historical Fiction

441

Anthony Trollope - Castle Richmond

Set against the background of the Irish famine in the 1840’s, the novel tells of the tangled relationships between Clara Desmond, Herbert Fitzgerald and his cousin Owen Fitzgerald. Clara – whose previously ‘great’...

Simon Evers 19 hours 47 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Anthony Trollope - Two Heroines of Plumplington

In the small English Town of Plumplington the daughter of a brewer and that of a banker each has selected her future husband contrary to the wishes of her father. Both young men are regarded as not 'good enough',...

Arnold 2 hours 54 minutes

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Short Stories

461

Anthony Trollope - Editor's Tales

These 'tales' describe a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While containing some amusing bits, the tales are relatively grim, compared to most...

Arnold 8 hours 56 minutes

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Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories

Short Stories

478

Anthony Trollope - Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories

A collection of five stories by Anthony Trollope: Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices; The Lady of Launay; Christmas at Thompson Hall; The Telegraph Girl; and Alice Dugdale — Summary by Nicholas Clifford

Nicholas Clifford 10 hours 56 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

457

Anthony Trollope - Ralph the Heir

As usual, Trollope creates a nice variety of characters of different English classes, sentiments and positions. The primary themes are the inheritance of property, extravagance or reason in the spending of assets, the...

Arnold 23 hours 24 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

613

Anthony Trollope - Macdermots of Ballycloran

This is the story of the Macdermots of Ballycloran the story is about the tragic demise of a landowning family. Larry Macdermot lives in a dilapidated mansion in Co. Leitrim, whose mortgage to Joe Flannelly he cannot...

Bob Neufeld and 8 more 16 hours 41 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

516

Anthony Trollope - Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson

Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business doomed from the get-go to utter failure. Its senior partner (the elderly...

Arnold 8 hours 7 minutes

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Historical Fiction

590

Anthony Trollope - Christmas at Thompson Hall

«A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale»; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor injuries, embarassment, and Trollope's usual 'nice' social interactions. (Summary by...

Arnold 1 hour 48 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

483

Anthony Trollope - Three Clerks (version 2)

Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk in the General Post Office to provide an entertaining and moving account of...

Anthony Ogus 21 hours 50 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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