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About Anthony Trollope
English novelist and civil servant, Victorian era
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist of the Victorian era. He is best known for his long, carefully observed novels about social life, public institutions, and the routines of work and class in 19th-century England. Trollope also worked as a civil servant, and that experience shaped much of his fiction. His writing is noted for its clear style and close attention to everyday conduct, especially the pressures of duty, ambition, and social expectation.
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Books by Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers
1999
Framley Parsonage
2016
The Warden
1984
The three clerks
2004
Cousin Henry
1879