Castle Richmond (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192821733 ISBN 13: 9780192821737

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Set in Ireland during the famine years of 1845-7 at a time when Trollope was living in the rural south-west of the country, Castle Richmond relays the story of the Fitzeralds and their fight to retain their family home. Trollope creates a disturbing picture of the lives of the laboring Irish poor both before and during the famine.

About this title

About the Author:

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) started his writing career while working in Ireland as a postal surveyor. Travelling around the country, Trollope gained knowledge of the country and its people which proved to be useful material for his first two novels, The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847) and The Kellys and the O'Kellys (1848). Trollope soon started writing fiercely, producing a series entitled Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Warden, the first in the series, was published in 1855. Barchester Towers (1857), the comic masterpiece, Doctor Thorne (1858), Framley Parsonage (1861), The Small House at Allington (1864) and The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) followed, portraying events in an imaginary English county of Barsetshire. In 1867, Trollope left the Post Office to run as a candidate for the Parliament. Having lost at the elections, Trollope focused on his writing. A satire from his later writing, The Way We Live Now (1875) is often viewed as Trollope's major work, however, his popularity and writing reputation diminished at the later stage of his life. Anthony Trollope died in London in 1882.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0192821733
• ISBN 13: 9780192821737
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 542
• Editor: Hamer Mary