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A Witty and Insightful Victorian Novel of Work, Ambition, and Love
First published in 1857, The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope was the author’s sixth novel and is often regarded as one of his most autobiographical works. Drawing on his own experience as a civil servant, Trollope turns the routines, frustrations, ambitions, and temptations of government employment into a lively portrait of Victorian professional life.
The novel follows three young clerks whose careers at the fictional Weights and Measures office take very different paths. Their professional fortunes become closely intertwined with their friendships, financial ambitions, moral choices, and relationships with a family of three sisters.
Trollope knew this world intimately. His years working for the General Post Office at St Martin-le-Grand provided him with firsthand knowledge of bureaucracy and office politics, allowing him to depict the civil service with both humor and remarkable precision. The novel explores how easily professional ambition can become entangled with money, status, temptation, and personal integrity.
The contrast between the three clerks gives the story much of its strength. Trollope examines success and failure not simply in terms of career advancement, but through character, responsibility, love, and the consequences of individual choices. Romance and domestic life unfold alongside professional rivalry, giving the novel the rich social texture for which he later became famous.
The Three Clerks also has a fascinating connection with Trollope’s own working habits. During years of frequent travel for the Post Office, he became famous for writing while journeying by train, using a small writing support or “tablet” positioned on his knees so that travel time could become productive literary time.
Trollope himself later regarded The Three Clerks as superior to his earlier novels, and it is easy to see why: the book already displays his sharp social observation, understated comedy, moral complexity, and talent for creating believable characters caught between personal desire and social expectation.
This E-Bookarama Editions edition is an excellent choice for readers of Victorian fiction, workplace novels, and British literary classics. Alongside Barchester Towers, The Warden, The Way We Live Now, and Can You Forgive Her?, The Three Clerks offers a fascinating early example of Trollope’s distinctive realism and social comedy.
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance, Young Adult
Length23 hrs 8 mins
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Publish dateOct 9, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter 1 - The weights and measures
3Chapter 2 - The internal navigation
4Chapter 3 - The Woodwards
5Chapter 4 - Captain Cuttwater
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6Chapter 5 - Bushey Park
7Chapter 6 - Sir Gregory Hardlines
8Chapter 7 - Mr. Fidus Neverbend
9Chapter 8 - The Hon. Undecimus Scott
10Chapter 9 - Mr. Manylodes
11Chapter 10 - Wheal Mary Jane
12Chapter 11 - The three kings
13Chapter 12 - Consolation
14Chapter 13 - A communication of importance
15Chapter 14 - Very sad
16Chapter 15 - Norman returns to town
17Chapter 16 - The First Wedding
18Chapter 17 - The honourable Mrs. Val and Miss Golightly
19Chapter 18 - A day with one of the navvies.-Morning
20Chapter 19 - A day with one the navvies.-Afternoon
21Chapter 20 - A day with one of the navvies.-Evening
22Chapter 21 - Hampton Court Bridge
23Chapter 22 - Crinoline and Macassar; or, my aunt's will
24Chapter 23 - Surbiton Colloquies
25Chapter 24 - Mr. M'Buffer accepts the Chiltern Hundreds
26Chapter 25 - Chiswick Gardens
27Chapter 26 - Katie's First Ball
28Chapter 27 - Excelsior
29Chapter 28 - Outerman v Tudor
30Chapter 29 - Easy is the slope of hell
31Chapter 30 - Mrs. Woodward's request
32Chapter 31 - How Apollo saves the navvy
33Chapter 32 - The Parliamentary Committee
34Chapter 33 - To stand, or not to stand
35Chapter 34 - Westminster Hall
36Chapter 35 - Mrs. Val's new carriage
37Chapter 36 - Ticklish stock
38Chapter 37 - Tribulation
39Chapter 38 - Alaric Tudor takes a walk
40Chapter 39 - The last breakfast
41Chapter 40 - Mr. Chaffanbrass
42Chapter 41 - The old bailey
43Chapter 42 - A parting interview
44Chapter 43 - Millbank
45Chapter 44 - The criminal population is disposed of
46Chapter 45 - The fate of the navvies
47Chapter 46 - Mr. Nogo's last question
48Chapter 47 - Conclusion
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