The Claverings (World's Classics) - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192817272 ISBN 13: 9780192817273

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1986

Synopsis

Since its first appearance in 1867, The Claverings has been acclaimed as one of Trollope's most concentrated and successful portrayals of mid-Victorian life. Harry Clavering is perhaps the first well-born Victorian hero to choose a career in civil engineering; he wants to transform the world with railways and bridges. Julia Brabazon, his first love, jilts him for a wealthy, dissipated, and decrepit nobleman. Two years later, a rich young widow, she reappears and forces Harry to choose between the comforts of a moneyed wife and the honourable course of marrying his fiancee, Florence Burton, and pursuing his avowed career. His struggles of conscience contrast strikingly with the emotional strength of the two women. Trollope deploys masterly realism and Victorian moral sense in portraying the anguish of making choices in both profession and marriage.

About this title

About the Author:

As young adult, Trollope endured seven years of poverty in the General Post Office in London before accepting a better-paying position as postal surveyor in Banagher, Ireland in 1841. The years in Ireland formed the basis of his second career delineating clerical life in small cathedral towns.

Synopsis:

This novel is considered to be one of Trollope's most concentrated and successful portrayals of mid-Victorian life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0192817272
• ISBN 13: 9780192817273
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 546