The American Senator

Name: The American Senator
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781787247635

Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: Timeless Classic
Language: English
Length: 572 pages
ISBN: 9781787247635
Published: 9 August 2018
Imprint: Sovereign

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"The American Senator" by Anthony Trollope intricately weaves together tales of marriage, politics, and social customs through the eyes of an observing outsider. The story unfolds in rural England, where the visiting Senator Gotobed from America critiques the English way of life, particularly the intricacies of land laws and marriage practices. As he intermingles with local gentry and witnesses the romantic struggles of Arabella Trefoil, a woman navigating social expectations to secure a prosperous marriage, themes of hypocrisy, love, and cultural differences are explored vividly.

Author

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) spent his days as a Post Office surveyor and his early hours at the novel — a clerk's discipline that produced an English county of clergy and a later London of money. Barchester Towers is the church as weather: preferment, gossip, a bishop's wife. The Way We Live Now is the same eye on speculation and the social lie. He wrote without apology for the method. Church, vote, and marriage sit in the same air.

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