Anthony Trollope
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Barchester Towers (1857) was the book that made Trollope's reputation and it remains his most popular and enjoyable novel. The arrival of a new bishop in Barchester, accompanied by his formidable wife and ambitious chaplain, Obadiah Slope, sets the town in turmoil as Archdeacon Grantly declares "War, war, internecine war!" on Bishop Proudie and his supporters. Who will come out on top in the battle between the archdeacon, the bishop, Mr. Slope, and...
4) Nina Balatka
Author
Series
The Penguin Trollope volume 20
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 195
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Anthony Trollope's stock-in-trade was the life of the great drawing rooms of mid-Victorian England, where the thirst for wealth and political power and the need for love continually formed and reformed in unexpected, illuminating combinations. Can You Forgive Her?, the story of Alice Vavasor, her conundrums in love, and her confusions about the rights and duties of a modern, is the first novel in his magnificent Palliser series; it is energized on...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
"In this lively, intimate portrayal of county society Trollope introduces two of his most endearing heroines. Lilian and Bell Dale live with their mother at the Small house in Allington, near their uncle, who inhabits the adjoining Great house. Pretty, spirited and warm-hearted, they are not short of suitors. Before long Lily has succumbed to the charms of the dashing young swell Alphonse Crosbie, while their cousin Bernard, spurred on by their uncle,...
12) Doctor Thorne
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Doctor Thorne adopts his niece Mary, keeping secret her illegitimate birth as he introduces her to the best local social circles. There she meets and falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to a vastly mortgaged estate; yet Frank is obliged to find a wealthy wife. Only Doctor Thorne knows that Mary is to inherit a large legacy that will make her acceptable to the otherwise disapproving middle-class society to which Frank belongs.
13) Doctor Thorne
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The only son of the squire of Greshamsbury faces opposition from his mother when he falls in love with and wants to marry Dr. Thorne's pretty but poor and illegitimate niece.
15) The Pallisers
Publisher
distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A sprawling BBC saga of wealth, passion, and power, set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England. Chronicles twenty years in the life of an aristocratic dynasty moving through high society in the heyday of Queen Victoria's reign. Based on Anthony Trollope's six political novels-called the finest sequence of fiction ever written about British Parliamentary life.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
This satire of Victorian society shows the trials and tribulations of young love, the pettiness of upper class life, the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen, and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface.
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor
Pub. Date
2005]
Language
English
Description
Based on the classic novel by Anthony Trollope, the story follows Louis and Emily Trevalyan. After a blissful first year of marriage, things turn darker when a roguish Colonel takes an interest in Emily that fans the flames of Louis's jealousy.
Author
Publisher
DigiCat
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
'The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time - Premium Collection' emerges as a treasure trove of literary mastery, uniting a multiverse of tales under the auspices of the festive spirit. This anthology's overarching theme revolves around the essence of Christmas, exploring it through various lenses of joy, introspection, redemption, and the intrinsic human yearning for connection and warmth in the chilling winter months. The collection vaunts an impressive...
Author
Publisher
Good Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas to you all! This festive season, we are playing the Santa, and offering you our own Christmas basket of holiday goodies: the greatest Christmas novels and magical Christmas Tales: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Christmas with Grandma...
Author
Publisher
Pandora's Box
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens,...