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Anthony Trollope

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

April 24, 1815

Died

December 06, 1882

Genre

Fiction, Travel, History

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Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.

Trollope has always been a popular novelist. Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness (who never travelled without a Trollope novel), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay. Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, b ...more

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Anthony Trollope’s books

Average rating: 3.96 · 137,214 ratings · 13,870 reviews · 1,996 distinct works • Similar authors

	Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 17,120 ratings — published 1857 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 17,755 ratings — published 1855 — 1061 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way We Live Now 4.09 avg rating — 13,660 ratings — published 1875 — 555 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3) by Anthony Trollope, Ruth Rendell (Editor) 4.15 avg rating — 7,967 ratings — published 1858 — 726 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser #1) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Wall (Introduction) 3.99 avg rating — 8,042 ratings — published 1865 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2) 3.99 avg rating — 7,340 ratings — published 1869 — 477 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #6) by Anthony Trollope, Sophie Gilmartin (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 6,216 ratings — published 1867 — 204 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 6,007 ratings — published 1869 — 307 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #5) by Anthony Trollope, Julian F. Thompson (Introduction) 4.05 avg rating — 5,478 ratings — published 1864 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eustace Diamonds (Palliser, #3) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Gill, John Sutherland (Introduction) 3.95 avg rating — 4,986 ratings — published 1873 — 433 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Anthony Trollope

Chronicles of Barsetshire (6 books)
by

Anthony Trollope,

Sophie Gilmartin (Editor)

3.99 avg rating — 59,278 ratings

Palliser (6 books)
by

Anthony Trollope,

Dinah Birch (Editor)

4.01 avg rating — 29,120 ratings

The Complete Short Stories of Anthony Trollope (5 books)
by

Anthony Trollope,

Marta Salís (Translator)

3.51 avg rating — 1,265 ratings

Quotes by Anthony Trollope (?)

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
― Anthony Trollope

tags: writing

847 likes

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
― Anthony Trollope, The Warden

688 likes

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”
― Anthony Trollope

tags: book-lovers, reading

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Polls

2014 Third Quarter Long Read Elimination Poll

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

20 votes, 12.3%

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

17 votes, 10.4%

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

15 votes, 9.2%

The Iliad by Homer

13 votes, 8.0%

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

12 votes, 7.4%

Middlemarch by George Eliot

11 votes, 6.7%

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

10 votes, 6.1%

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9 votes, 5.5%

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

9 votes, 5.5%

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

5 votes, 3.1%

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

5 votes, 3.1%

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

5 votes, 3.1%

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

5 votes, 3.1%

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

4 votes, 2.5%

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

4 votes, 2.5%

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

4 votes, 2.5%

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

3 votes, 1.8%

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

3 votes, 1.8%

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

2 votes, 1.2%

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

2 votes, 1.2%

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

2 votes, 1.2%

U.S.A. by John Dos Passos

1 vote, 0.6%

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

1 vote, 0.6%

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

1 vote, 0.6%

A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

0 votes, 0.0%

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

0 votes, 0.0%

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

0 votes, 0.0%

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

0 votes, 0.0%

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

0 votes, 0.0%

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

0 votes, 0.0%

163 total votes

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