Trollope: 568 books

When neither the Whigs nor the Tories are able to form a government on their own, a fragile compromise coalition government is formed, with Plantagenet Palliser, the wealthy and hard-working Duke of Omnium, installed as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Duchess, formerly Lady Glencora Palliser,...

A wealthy young English gentleman, Louis Trevelyan, visits the fictional Mandarin Islands, a distant British possession, and becomes smitten with Emily Rowley, the eldest daughter of the governor, Sir Marmaduke Rowley. The Rowleys accompany Trevelyan to London, where he marries Emily. When the rest of...

The title character is the daughter of the late Earl Lovel. Her mother married him out of ambition rather than love, and despite his evil reputation. Soon after their marriage, he told her that he had a living wife, which made their union invalid and their unborn daughter illegitimate. He then sailed to Italy without her and did not return to England for twenty years.

The circumstances of the general election of 18— will be well remembered by all those who take an interest in the political matters of the country. There had been a coming in and a going out of Ministers previous to that,—somewhat rapid, very exciting, and, upon the whole, useful as showing the...

AS all the world knows, the old fortifications of Vienna have been pulled down,-the fortifications which used to surround the centre or kernel of the city; and the vast spaces thus thrown open and forming a broad ring in the middle of the town have not as yet been completely filled up with those new...

This edition of combines the contents of two volumes that appeared under this title in 1861 and 1863, respectively.  The focus throughout is on the eternal verities of human nature as reflected in various countries and cultures.  Among the seventeen stories are "La Mere Bauche," "The Courtship of Susan...

TO THE FAMILY OF THE FUTURE MRS. BARNABY.—FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES.—MATERNAL LOVE.—PREPARATIONS FOR A FETE. Miss Martha Compton, and Miss Sophia Compton, were, some five-and-twenty years ago, the leading beauties of the pretty town of Silverton in Devonshire. The elder of these ladies is the person...

Augustus Cheffington had made an unfortunate marriage. That was admitted on all hands. When he was a Cornet in a cavalry regiment quartered in the ancient Cathedral City of Oldchester, he ran away with pretty Susan Dobbs, the daughter of his landlady. Augustus's friends and family—all the Cheffingtons,...

Oui ! en ce qui touche les côtés vulgaires de l’humanité, notre siècle est un siècle humain. Donnons du pain à tout le monde, hommes, femmes et enfants ; qu’ils ne reçoivent pas de coups, ou le moins possible ; qu’ils soient décemment vêtus, et, de plus, préservés des épidémies....

Martha est une jeune et jolie fille, qui se soucie moins de se marier que de danser chaque nuit, d'être appelée « lady » et de rouler en calèche à quatre chevaux. Sans compter sa passion pour les officiers... À 30 ans, l'imprévoyante se trouve obligée d'épouser le prospère pharmacien Barnaby,...

It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they occurred, which led up to the incidents that I am about to tell; and I may as well say that these first...

Excerpt ! Prudence and his father may ultimately save him from such banishment, but he will not refuse without a pang of regret. Alas! it is a mistake. Bread may be earned, and fortunes, perhaps, made in such countries; and as it is the destiny of our race to spread itself over the wide...

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