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Anthony Trollope

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

April 24, 1815

Died

December 06, 1882

Genre

Fiction, Travel, History

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Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.

Trollope has always been a popular novelist. Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness (who never travelled without a Trollope novel), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay. Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, b ...more

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Anthony Trollope’s books

Average rating: 3.97 · 143,797 ratings · 14,932 reviews · 2,375 distinct works • Similar authors

	Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 17,730 ratings — published 1857 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 18,696 ratings — published 1855 — 1129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way We Live Now 4.09 avg rating — 14,137 ratings — published 1875 — 566 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3) by Anthony Trollope, Ruth Rendell (Editor) 4.15 avg rating — 8,425 ratings — published 1858 — 339 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Wall (Introduction) 3.99 avg rating — 8,359 ratings — published 1865 — 492 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2) 3.99 avg rating — 7,551 ratings — published 1869 — 504 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #6) by Anthony Trollope, Sophie Gilmartin (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 6,429 ratings — published 1867	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 6,061 ratings — published 1869 — 329 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #5) by Anthony Trollope, Julian F. Thompson (Introduction) 4.06 avg rating — 5,724 ratings — published 1864 — 562 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eustace Diamonds (Palliser, #3) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Gill, John Sutherland (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 5,189 ratings — published 1873 — 454 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Anthony Trollope

Chronicles of Barsetshire (6 books)
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Anthony Trollope,

Sophie Gilmartin (Editor)

3.99 avg rating — 61,996 ratings

Palliser (6 books)
by

Anthony Trollope,

Dinah Birch (Editor)

4.02 avg rating — 30,228 ratings

The Complete Short Stories of Anthony Trollope (5 books)
by

Anthony Trollope,

Marta Salís (Translator)

3.52 avg rating — 1,388 ratings

Quotes by Anthony Trollope (?)

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
― Anthony Trollope

tags: writing

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“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
― Anthony Trollope, The Warden

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“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”
― Anthony Trollope

tags: book-lovers, reading

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Polls

February 2021 Old School Poll

The Warden by Anthony Trollope 1855, 336 pages

66 votes, 22.1%

Hunger by Knut Hamsun 1890, 134 pages

58 votes, 19.5%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 1862, 244 pages

55 votes, 18.5%

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott 1884, 96 pages

38 votes, 12.8%

Evelina by Frances Burney 1778, 455 pages

34 votes, 11.4%

Germinal by Émile Zola 1885, 592 pages

29 votes, 9.7%

Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis 1881, 236 pages

18 votes, 6.0%

298 total votes

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