Miss Mackenzie - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606644327 ISBN 13: 9781606644324

Publisher: Aegypan, 2009

Synopsis

 

                                                                                                                    MISS MACKENZIE

I fear that Miss Mackenzie had no sufficiently settled plan of life. She wished to live pleasantly, and perhaps fashionably; but she also desired to live respectably, and with a due regard to religion. How she was to set about doing this at Littlebath, I am afraid she did not quite know. She told herself over and over again that wealth entailed duties as well as privileges; but she had no clear idea what were the duties so entailed, or what were the privileges. How could she have obtained any clear idea on the subject in that prison which she had inhabited for so many years by her ailing brother's bedside?

If you go to Wikipedia today, you'll see on the page about Trollope that he was "one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, gender issues and conflicts of his day." All true enough. But it misses something, too, we think: where as many of his contemporaries are now lost with the flotsam and jetsam of time, Anthony Trollope wrote things that people still want to read.

Pretty cool stuff, we think.

"Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic."

-- W. H. Auden

About this title

About the Author:

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. 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. Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life but he had regained the esteem of critics by the mid-20th century. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aegypan
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1606644327
• ISBN 13: 9781606644324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308