Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Trollope's witty, satirical story of a quiet cathedral town shaken by scandal — as the traditional values of Septimus Harding are attacked by zealous reformers and ruthless newspapers — is a drama of conscience that pits individual integrity against worldly ambition. In The Warden Anthony Trollope brought the fictional county of Barsetshire to life, peopled by a cast of brilliantly realised…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope, the smooth Archdeacon Grantly and his father-in-law, the saintly Mr Harding. Barchester Towers is one of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Henry Jones, an unprepossessing London insurance clerk, knows that his uncle has disinherited him. The old man's will, made out at the last minute in favour of Henry's charming cousin Isabel Brodrick, lies neatly folded in a well-thumbed volume of sermons in his book-room; Henry saw him put it there before he died. Unfortunately nobody else knows where the will is, and Henry stands to lose…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop's Palace to help dominate her husband and rule the local clergy. But Slope is a snake in the grass, determined to find a rich wife, to win advancement for himself, even to fight Mrs Proudie if necessary. Their battle becomes a furious dance, involving rich, pretty Widow Bold, angry Archdeacon…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: With an Introduction by Joanna Trollope. Trollope's delightful novel recounts the fortunes of Doctor Thorne, an upright and principled country doctor, and his niece Mary. She falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the heavily mortgaged Greshambury estate, but he is constrained in his choices by the need to marry well so that he can restore the family fortunes. The vicissitudes of Mary and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: The fourth of Trollope's Palliser novels, this text tells the story of Phineas Redux, who returns to politics only to find that a series of quarrels hamper his progress. The beautiful and enigmatic Madame Max Goesler, familiar from earlier political novels, plays her part in this tale.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 860) Аннотация: This story deals with the imperfect workings of the legal system in the trial and acquittal of Lady Mason. Trollope wrote in his Autobiography that his friends considered this the best I have written.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Trollope relates his life from the influence of his childhood and mother, to the time he spent in the Post Office and the motivation behind his literary career.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 780) Аннотация: This is a reissue of the previous World's Classics edition in the new, larger format and with the series name changed to Oxford World's Classics.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 533 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 694) Аннотация: Designed for both general readers and students of English literature at all levels, this edition of Trollope's novel contains an introduction, notes and comments on the text.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 349 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 658) Аннотация: Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. Trollope was of course interested in the Church, that pillar of Victorian society — in its susceptibility to corruption, hypocrisy, and blinkered conservatism — but the Barsetshire novels are no more…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England — a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it — is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. An exotic impostor, seemingly from nowhere, Lopez has society at his feet, while well-connected ladies vie with each other to exert influence on his behalf — even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora. But…