“It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.”

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.