The Small House at Allington

Name: The Small House at Allington
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781910660539

Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: The Barchester Chronicles
Language: English
Length: 602 pages
ISBN: 9781910660539
Published: 15 January 2015
Imprint: Sovereign

Victorian society
rural England
romantic entanglements
social expectations
heartbreak
family dynamics
courtship
social class
personal resilience
country life

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Description

"The Small House at Allington" intricately explores the trials and tribulations of the Dale family, residing in the quaint confines of a country house. Lily Dale, the gentle heroine, captures the heart with her romantic entanglements, particularly with the charming yet unreliable John Crosbie. As engagements are made and broken, Trollope masterfully portrays the complexities of love, ambition, and social expectations. This novel is a poignant study of heartbreak and resilience, embroidered with the detailed social tapestry of Victorian life.

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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