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An Autobiography 2 Volume Set

An Autobiography 2 Volume Set

An Autobiography 2 Volume Set

Anthony Trollope
February 2014
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Multiple copy pack
9781108070485
$70.99
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Multiple copy pack
2 Paperback books

    One of the most celebrated and prolific authors of the Victorian era, Anthony Trollope (1815–82) requested that his autobiography be published posthumously. The two-volume work, first published in 1883 and reissued here in the second edition of that year, recounts his childhood, successful career at the Post Office, and multiple achievements as a writer. Well received by the critics of the time, the work reveals the incredible discipline that enabled Trollope to write forty-seven novels in the course of his career. Of particular interest to literary scholars, the reflections on his early life show how his unhappy childhood and his father's financial problems influenced his fiction. Volume 1 covers Trollope's early life and first successes, while Volume 2 goes into greater detail on his writing technique. Two of Trollope's non-fiction works, North America (1862) and Australia and New Zealand (1873), have also been reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

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    February 2014
    Multiple copy pack
    9781108070485
    520 pages
    213 × 196 × 30 mm
    0.67kg
    1 b/w illus.
    Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC

    Table of Contents

    • Volume 1: Preface
    • 1. My education, 1815–34
    • 2. My mother
    • 3. The General Post Office
    • 4. Ireland - my first two novels
    • 5. My first success
    • 6. Barchester Towers and the Three Clerks
    • 7. Doctor Thorne - The Bertrams - The West Indies and the Spanish Main
    • 8. The Cornhill Magazine and Framley Parsonage
    • 9. Castle Richmond, Brown, Jones, and Robinson, North America, Orley Farm
    • 10. The Small House at Allington, Can You Forgive Her?, Rachel Ray, and the Fortnightly Review. Volume 2:
    • 11. The Claverings, the Pall Mall Gazette, Nina Balatka, and Linda Tressel
    • 12. On novels and the art of writing them
    • 13. On English novelists of the present day
    • 14. On criticism
    • 15. The Last Chronicle of Barset - Leaving the Post Office - St Paul's Magazine
    • 16. Beverley
    • 17. The American postal treaty
    • 18. The Vicar of Bullhampton - Sir Harry Hotspur - An Editor's Tales - Caesar
    • 19. Ralph the Heir - The Eustace Diamonds - Lady Anna - Australia
    • 20. The Way We Live Now and The Prime Minister.
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