The Belton Estate

Name: The Belton Estate
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781787247574

Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: Timeless Classic
Language: English
Length: 356 pages
ISBN: 9781787247574
Published: 7 August 2018
Imprint: Sovereign

Anthony Trollope
Palliser
Parliamentary
Victorian
social
political
gender
sensual
awakening
love

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Description

In "The Belton Estate" by Anthony Trollope, the struggle for inheritance and love intertwines the lives of the Amedroz family and their cousin, Will Belton. As the Amedroz estate faces financial ruin, Will, a pragmatic and kind-hearted farmer, offers support and proposes to Clara Amedroz, who is torn between duty and her own desires. Clara's engagement to another man complicates matters, testing loyalties and affections. Trollope masterfully explores themes of duty, love, and social expectations in this compelling Victorian drama.

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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