Author of Audiobooks - Anthony Trollope
Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories - Anthony Trollope
Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of five stories by Anthony Trollope: Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices; The Lady of Launay;Christmas at Thompson Hall; The Telegraph Girl; and Alice Dugdale - Summary by Nicholas Clifford...
Linda Tressel - Anthony Trollope
Linda Tressel - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Linda Tressel lives a lonely life with her domineering aunt, Madame Staubach, in a large house in Nuremberg. Madame Staubach takes in the odious and much older Peter Steinmarc as a lodger and plans that Linda should marry him – entirely against...
Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Set against the background of the Irish famine in the 1840’s, the novel tells of the tangled relationships between Clara Desmond, Herbert Fitzgerald and his cousin Owen Fitzgerald. Clara – whose previously ‘great’ family is almost bankrupt – is...
The Three Clerks (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
The Three Clerks (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk in the General Post Office to provide an entertaining and moving account of how ambition within the service...
The Small House at Allington - Anthony Trollope
The Small House at Allington - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Romance / Satire
Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her two marriageable daughters, Lily and Bell. The two girls, of course, have suitors: their cousin, Bernard Dale,...
Mr Scarborough's Family - Anthony Trollope
Mr Scarborough's Family - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
MR SCARBOROUGH, wealthy owner of Tretton Park in Staffordshire, is dying. His eldest son and heir Mountjoy has gambled away his inheritance to avaricious money-lenders who hold post-obits to the entire value of the estate.Then Mr. Scarborough...
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - Anthony Trollope
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business doomed from the get-go to utter failure. Its senior partner (the elderly Brown, who provides the investment)...
The Claverings - Anthony Trollope
The Claverings - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
"I consider the story as a whole to he good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict." - the author The Claverings is the best wrought of the novels designed for The Cornhill, and as surely conceived as any book he ever...
Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope
Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860. (Summary by Wikipedia) "Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best...
Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope
Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Satire / Published 1800 -1900
Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English language. Trollope's people are real; the beleaguered Lady Mason, charged with forging a will; the aged lover Sir...
Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personalities of the Church of England, or politics on the national level (though there is lots of politicking in the...
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite - Anthony Trollope
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Sir Harry Hotspur’s only son and heir dies young which means that the title goes to a cousin, George Hotspur. Sir Harry wants the ancestral property to go to his daughter, Emily, and hopes that a future husband will adopt the family name. George is...
The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope
The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Historical Fiction
Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest of these is an almost pathological...
Clergymen Of The Church Of England - Anthony Trollope
Clergymen Of The Church Of England - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Religion / Modern (19th C)
This 1866 book was published in a time of great change in the Church of England. Trollope began as a High Church adherent and then worked his way to a Broad Church stance, a theological liberalism (toleration of belief and interpretation, regard for...
Aaron Trow - Anthony Trollope
Aaron Trow - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
What is it like to be a fox hunted by hounds? We find out through the senses of an escaped convict as he struggles to free himself from would-be captors. The struggle is brutal. In the end, we are left wondering which person really wins--the pursued...
The Warden - Anthony Trollope
The Warden - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, Charles Dickens. His two series of novels, the political (The Pallisers) and the clerical (The Barsetshire...
Christmas at Thompson Hall - Anthony Trollope
Christmas at Thompson Hall - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction
"A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale"; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor injuries, embarassment, and Trollope's usual 'nice' social interactions. (Summary by Arnold Banner)...
The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar from the earlier Barsetshire novels, including the Rev. Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of...
The American Senator - Anthony Trollope
The American Senator - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
The American Senator is a novel written in 1875 by Anthony Trollope. Although not one of Trollope's better-known works, it is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting scenes. In its anti-heroine,...
Doctor Wortle's School - Anthony Trollope
Doctor Wortle's School - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
Anthony Trollope’s fortieth novel, published in 1881, concerns a respectable Christian boys’ school whose proprietor unknowingly hires a woman who apparently has two husbands: A devoted English scholar and an abusive drunkard from the American...
The Life of Cicero, Vol. I - Anthony Trollope
The Life of Cicero, Vol. I - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known as a novelist, admired Cicero...
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope - Anthony Trollope
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-deprecating tone is at times hilarious and at times piteously moving. His detailed descriptions of his writing...
Marion Fay - Anthony Trollope
Marion Fay - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to the typical strains between parental desires and romantic wishes of the young. The novel’s primary characters...
The Golden Lion of Granpere - Anthony Trollope
The Golden Lion of Granpere - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Romance
Time to do a short Continental trip with Trollope and see if we agree with Walpole. "...not only Trollope's very best shorter book, but one of the most charming idylls in English literature. - . . It has all the colour and richness and cohesion of...
Ayala's Angel - Anthony Trollope
Ayala's Angel - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their poor uncle Mr Dosett. The girls find it hard to get used to their new surroundings. Lucy becomes engaged to...
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialization. It was regarded by many of Trollope's contemporaries as his finest work. One of his longest novels (it contains a...
The Two Heroines of Plumplington - Anthony Trollope
The Two Heroines of Plumplington - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
In the small English Town of Plumplington the daughter of a brewer and that of a banker each has selected her future husband contrary to the wishes of her father. Both young men are regarded as not 'good enough', though each is, in fact, much like...
Rachel Ray - Anthony Trollope
Rachel Ray - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman - wishes him to marry one of her own daughters, while Rachel's mother and older sister are not sure he is worthy...
Is He Popenjoy ? - Anthony Trollope
Is He Popenjoy ? - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues are complicated by the specter of possible illegitimacy. Lord George Germain, a thoroughly respectable, upstanding, if...
An Editor's Tales - Anthony Trollope
An Editor's Tales - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900
These 'tales' describe a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While containing some amusing bits, the tales are relatively grim, compared to most Trollope stories. The Turkish Bath:...
Doctor Thorne (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
This is the third book in The Chronicles of Barsetshire, the first two being The Warden and Barchester Towers; however, although some characters from the first two books are referred to, there is no need to read/ listen to them first to enjoy Dr....
The Fixed Period - Anthony Trollope
The Fixed Period - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Science Fiction
This book is set in 1980 in the Republic of Britannula, which is a fictional island near New Zealand. It deals with euthanasia as a radical solution to the problem of the aged. The novel is in the form of a personal account written by the President...
Kept in the Dark - Anthony Trollope
Kept in the Dark - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Romance
Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope. It was published in eight monthly installments in 1882, and also in book form in the same year. Cecilia Holt ends her engagement to Sir Francis Geraldine because of...
He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
He Knew He Was Right is a 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollope which describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband exacerbated by the stubbornness of a willful wife. As is common with Trollope's works, there...
Phineas Finn the Irish Member - Anthony Trollope
Phineas Finn the Irish Member - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irishman who becomes a member of the English parliament. Trollope aspired to become an M.P. himself, and he ably...
An Old Man's Love - Anthony Trollope
An Old Man's Love - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This was Trollope's last completed novel, and he may have acquired his sympathy for older lovers with age! A not-so-very-old man, Mr. Whittlestaff, dearly loves Mary Lawrie, the girl he provides a home for after her father's death. He wishes to...
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil - Anthony Trollope
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Family Life / Historical Fiction
Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sister Kate live with him. Giles Medlicott owns a sugar plantation and mill nearby. Two of Harry’s former...
Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barchester Towers' is very much a sequel to the first book ‘The Warden’, which is also available from Librivox. The...
Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope
Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas had returned to Ireland and married his childhood sweetheart after having left the House of Commons. As...
The Last Chronicle of Barset (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
The Last Chronicle of Barset (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Literary Fiction
LibriVox reader Nicholas Clifford calls this Trollope's best novel in his introduction to the collaborative version of this fine novel - and he is right! A wonderful study of its central character, the proud, irascible, tormented, poverty-stricken...