Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora - forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast fortune. In asking his readers to pardon Alice for her transgression of the Victorian moral code, Trollope created a telling and wide-ranging account of the social world of his day.
The second of Trollope's Palliser novels tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women.
The first of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, THE WARDEN explores the ethical dilemma of the Rev. Septimus Harding, the gentle, cello-playing warden of a charitable home for elderly men. Unjustly accused of receiving money to which he is not entitled, the modest and self-doubting Harding insists on resigning, feeling that his honor has been tarnished. Meanwhile, his repentant accuser (an overzealous surgeon) marries Rev. Harding's daughter, Eleanor.
The Way We Live Now / UmwalzungenErster Teil von Trollopes GesellschaftsromanLondon 1870. In der Metropole stoen Gegensatze aufeinander. Verarmende Adelige sehen sich mit aufstrebenden Geschaftsleuten konfrontiert. Skrupellose Emporkommlinge konkurrieren gegen honorige Kaufleute. Die Mannerwelt wird durch selbstbewusste Frauen aufgeschreckt. Mit Witz und Einfuhlungsvermogen schildert Anthony Trollope das Aufeinandertreffen zahlreicher Figuren und deren Konflikte und illustriert damit die Gesellschaft seiner Zeit.
This book centres on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding's d
