Lady Anna (World's Classics S.) - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192821342 ISBN 13: 9780192821348

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1990

Synopsis

When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such disruptions of social order as this.' ( Saturday Review ) - although Trollope himself considered it `the best novel I ever wrote! Very much! Quite far away above all others!!!' This tightly constructed and passionate study of enforced marriage in the world of Radical politics and social inequality, records the lifelong attempt of Countess Lovel to justify her claim to her title, and her daughter Anna's legitimacy, after her husband announces that he already has a wife. However, mother and daughter are driven apart when Anna defies her mother's wish that she marry her cousin, heir to her father's title, and falls in love with journeyman tailor and young Radical Daniel Thwaite. The outcome is never in doubt, but Trollope's ambivalence on the question is profound, and the novel both intense and powerful. This book is intended for general readers; Trollope fans; students of Victorian literature and Victorian politics.

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About the Author:

About the Author English novelist Anthony Trollope ( 1815 – 1882) was a Victorian era writer. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues, and other topical matters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0192821342
• ISBN 13: 9780192821348
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 549