Selected Short Stories - (Dover Thrift Editions) by Anthony Trollope (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This collection ― which includes Mary Gresley, The Mistletoe Bough, The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne, and other first-rate stories ― provides an excellent introduction to Trollope's short fiction for students and lovers of classic literature.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Popular and prolific, Anthony Trollope wrote 47 novels as well as dozens of short stories that provide fascinating insights into Victorian life, behavior, and morals. A careful observer of people and places, Trollope created realistic, unsentimental depictions of everyday life that offer enduring entertainment as well as vivid reflections of the attitudes of his era. <br>These six stories originally appeared in periodicals, and Trollope may have drawn upon his experiences as an editor in writing Mary Gresley, concerning a young woman with literary ambitions, and The Spotted Dog, chronicling a harried scholar's attempts to work in peace. Christmas stories include The Mistletoe Bough, a tale of a broken engagement, and Not If I Know It, relating a family falling-out. Courtship and class distinctions receive wry treatments in The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne, in which a well-to-do suitor receives his comeuppance, and The Two Heroines of Plumplington, a tale of romance stymied by parental snobbery.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Popular and prolific, Anthony Trollope wrote forty-seven novels as well as dozens of short stories that provide fascinating insights into Victorian life, behavior, and morals. A careful observer of people and places, Trollope created realistic, unsentimental depictions of everyday life that offer enduring entertainment as well as vivid reflections of the attitudes of his era. <br>These six stories originally appeared in periodicals, and Trollope may have drawn upon his experiences as an editor in writing Mary Gresley, concerning a young woman with literary ambitions, and The Spotted Dog, chronicling a harried scholar's attempts to work in peace. Christmas stories include The Mistletoe Bough, a tale of a broken engagement, and Not If I Know It, relating a family falling-out. Courtship and class distinctions receive wry treatments in The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne, in which a well-to-do suitor receives his comeuppance, and The Two Heroines of Plumplington, a tale of romance stymied by parental snobbery.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Anthony Trollope (1815-82) was one of the greatest English novelists of the Victorian era. His works include <i>The Last Chronicle of Barset, The Way We Live Now, </i> and other enduringly popular books.
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