Anthony Trollope
The Palliser Novels & The Chronicles of Barsetshire: Complete Series
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-2991-8
Table of Contents
The Chronicles of Barsetshire:
The Palliser Novels: Can You Forgive Her?
An Autobiography
Chapter III. The General Post Office
Chapter IV. Ireland—my First Two Novels
Chapter VI. “Barchester Towers” and the “Three Clerks”
Chapter VII. “Doctor Thorne”—”The Bertrams”—”The West Indies” and “The Spanish Main”
Chapter VIII. The “Cornhill Magazine” and “Framley Parsonage”
Chapter IX. “Castle Richmond;” “Brown, Jones, and Robinson;” “North America;” “Orley Farm”
Chapter XI. “The Claverings,” the “Pall Mall Gazette,” “Nina Balatka,” and “Linda Tressel”
Chapter XII. On Novels and the Art of Writing Them
Chapter XIII. On English Novelists of the Present Day
Chapter XV. “The Last Chronicle of Barset”—”Leaving the Post Office”—”St. Paul’s Magazine”
Chapter XVII. The American Postal Treaty—The Question 0f Copyright With America—Four More Novels
Chapter XVIII. “The Vicar of Bullhampton”—”Sir Harry Hotspur”—”An Editor’s Tales”—”Caesar”
Chapter XIX. “Ralph the Heir”—”The Eustace Diamonds”—”Lady Anna”—”Australia”
Chapter XX. “The Way We Live Now” and “The Prime Minister”—Conclusion
Preface
It may be well that I should put a short preface to this book. In the summer of 1878 my father told me that he had written a memoir of his own life. He did not speak about it at length, but said that he had written me a letter, not to be opened until after his death, containing instructions for publication.
This letter was dated 30th April, 1876. I will give here as much of it as concerns the public: “I wish you to accept as a gift from me, given you now, the accompanying pages which contain a memoir of my life. My intention is that they shall be published after my death, and be edited by you. But I leave it altogether to your discretion whether to publish or to suppress the work;—and also to your discretion whether any part or what part shall be omitted. But I would not wish that anything should be added to the memoir. If you wish to say any word as from yourself, let it be done in the shape of a preface or introductory chapter.” At the end there is a postscript: “The publication, if made at all, should be effected as soon as possible after my death.” My father died on the 6th of December,