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Is Anthony Trollope worth reading?
The only 19th century novelists I've read have been by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Melville and Jane Austen
My favourite are Tolstoy and Austen

Hey y’all I picked up The Warden by Anthony Trollope. The book seems to have been misprinted so the text is awfully stretched and it hurts my eyes. I want to read it but before I get to deep, is the book worth reading? The prose seems very nice to my uncultured mind so far.

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Anyone here read Trollope, and can tell me if he's any good? The Barsetshire books seem pretty comfy.

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Anthony Trollope

His job as a high-up at the Post Office gave him a unique knowledge of how Britain, particularly rural Britain, really worked. Reading Dickens is like experiencing a dream, everything is fuzzy round the edges because it only exists to serve its thematic or didactic purpose. Wilkie Collins wrote sensationalist caricatures, and Thackeray wrote grotesques. I love them all, but Trollope gives me the best sense of real people operating in a real place. Also, whilst by no means unheard of, the perspective of a rural (capital-L) Liberal is quite a rare one, though Trollope always worked hard not to sneer at Toryism.

I might also have gone with Galsworthy, but it's only really the books of the Forsyte Saga that I 'shill'. I find his very early works quite insufferable.

Right for anyone who's read Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire, what's it like?

>My favorite author is Anthony Trollope
What kind of person do you imagine /lit/?

Trollope

>Trollope began writing on the numerous long train trips around Ireland he had to take to carry out his postal duties. Setting very firm goals about how much he would write each day, he eventually became one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote his earliest novels while working as a Post Office inspector, occasionally dipping into the "lost-letter" box for ideas.

Anthony Trollope used to write on the train commute to work at the post office.

Greatest Victorian novelist coming through here.