Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Clergy, gentry, and Parliament: Barsetshire and Palliser sagas of Victorian intrigueBy Anthony Trollope
Length320h 16m
About this audiobook
Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels gathers the two great fictional architectures on which Trollope's reputation securely rests. The Barsetshire sequence anatomizes clerical, domestic, and provincial life with humane irony, while the Palliser novels move into parliamentary politics, aristocratic marriage, finance, and public duty. Written in a lucid, conversational realist style, these works stand at the center of Victorian fiction, balancing social comedy with moral seriousness and an unusually patient attention to institutions. Trollope, a long-serving official in the General Post Office, brought to fiction a practical knowledge of bureaucracy, travel, class negotiation, and professional routine. His disciplined habits of composition and his experience of both English and Irish society helped shape novels attentive to systems as much as to individuals. He understood ambition, compromise, and respectability from within, yet rendered them with sympathetic detachment rather than melodrama. This collection is strongly recommended to readers seeking the breadth of nineteenth-century realism at its most companionable and intelligent. It offers not merely plots of courtship and career, but a sustained meditation on how private conscience survives within public structures.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 4.6 (1K)
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length320 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 12, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Annotated)
26Doctor Thorne (pt. 1)
2Introduction
27Doctor Thorne (pt. 2)
3Author Biography
28Doctor Thorne (pt. 3)
4Historical Context
29Doctor Thorne (pt. 4)
5Synopsis (Selection)
30Doctor Thorne (pt. 5)
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6Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels
31Doctor Thorne (pt. 6)
7An Autobiography (pt. 1)
32Doctor Thorne (pt. 7)
8An Autobiography (pt. 2)
33Doctor Thorne (pt. 8)
9An Autobiography (pt. 3)
34Doctor Thorne (pt. 9)
10An Autobiography (pt. 4)
35Doctor Thorne (pt. 10)
11An Autobiography (pt. 5)
36Framley Parsonage (pt. 1)
12The Chronicles of Barsetshire:
37Framley Parsonage (pt. 2)
13The Warden (pt. 1)
38Framley Parsonage (pt. 3)
14The Warden (pt. 2)
39Framley Parsonage (pt. 4)
15The Warden (pt. 3)
40Framley Parsonage (pt. 5)
16The Warden (pt. 4)
41Framley Parsonage (pt. 6)
17The Barchester Towers (pt. 1)
42Framley Parsonage (pt. 7)
18The Barchester Towers (pt. 2)
43Framley Parsonage (pt. 8)
19The Barchester Towers (pt. 3)
44Framley Parsonage (pt. 9)
20The Barchester Towers (pt. 4)
45The Small House at Allington (pt. 1)
21The Barchester Towers (pt. 5)
46The Small House at Allington (pt. 2)
22The Barchester Towers (pt. 6)
47The Small House at Allington (pt. 3)
23The Barchester Towers (pt. 7)
48The Small House at Allington (pt. 4)
24The Barchester Towers (pt. 8)
49The Small House at Allington (pt. 5)
25The Barchester Towers (pt. 9)
50The Small House at Allington (pt. 6)
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