The first novel in Anthony Trollope's "Palliser" series, "Can You Forgive Her?" traces the fortunes of three very different women in an exploration of whether social obligations...
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Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop...
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Despite his mysterious antecedents, an unscrupulous financial speculator, Ferdinand Lopez, aspires to marry into respectability and wealth and join the ranks of British society. One...
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After the death of old Dr. Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr...
'The fact is, Mark, that you and I cannot conceive the depth of fraud in such a man as that. ' The Reverend Mark Robarts makes a mistake. Drawn into a social set at odds with...
After the death of her much older husband, in a bitterly fought court case Lady Mason is accused of forging his will to give her son the property of Orley Farm. Examining the imperfect...
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Widely regarded as one of Trollope's most successful later novels, He Knew He Was Right is a study of marriage and of sexual relationships cast against a background of agitation...
'Frank has but one duty before him. He must marry money. ' The squire of Greshamsbury has fallen on hard times, and it is incumbent on his son Frank to make a good marriage...
'Mr Slope flattered himself that he could out-manoeuvre the lady... he did not doubt of ultimate triumph. ' Barchester Towers (1857) was the book that made Trollope's...
Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive diamond necklace. She maintains it was a gift from...
'You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart. ' John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor...
'All Hogglestock believed their parson to be innocent; but then all Hogglestock believed him to be mad. ' Josiah Crawley lives with his family in the parish of Hogglestock,...
The Warden introduces us to the lives of some of the most beloved characters in all literature. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket...
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Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it - is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand...
In the first of his six Palliser novels, Trollope deftly explores the tensions in Victorian society between reform and tradition, and the interplay between money, power, and politics...
It opens with the Bishop of Barchester lying on his death bed; soon a battle begins over who will take over power, with key players including the rather incompetent Dr Proudie, his...
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'She had resolved to trust in everything, and, having so trusted, she would not provide for herself any possibility of retreat. ' Lively and attractive, Lily Dale lives with...
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