Anthony Trollope - Softcover

Glendinning, Victoria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140235124 ISBN 13: 9780140235128

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1994

Synopsis

Anthony Trollope has come down to us as the most Victorian of Victorian novelists, who perfected a "bluff, roast-beef kind of Englishness" into high--and immensely popular--art. Glendinning ushers readers into the furthest reaches of Trollope's work and life to reveal a man of extraordinary depth and liveliness. Photos.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Glendinning, author of several biographies, presents a wonderful blend of Trollope's personal life and literary career within Victorian England's cultural and social climate. Trollope, one of the most prolific writers of the 19th century, had a miserable childhood, which greatly influenced his fiction. Glendinning's biography draws the reader deeper and deeper into the author's real and literary worlds. This is the fourth Trollope biography written by various scholars in recent years. Its most immediate predecessor, N. John Hall's Trollope: A Biography ( LJ 8/91), adopts the voice of an historical observer, whereas Glendinning is a storyteller who draws connections between Trollope's "family dynamics" and his "preoccupations as an author." This work is highly recommended as a scholarly biography and an enjoyable story.
- Lois Cherepon, St. John's Univ. Lib., New York
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

An astute and perceptive biography of the popular Victorian novelist. Photos. BOMC alternate in cloth.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140235124
• ISBN 13: 9780140235128
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608