Author: TROLLOPE, ANTHONY (1815-1882); THOMPSON, JULIAN, EDITOR
Title: The small house at Allington
Description: Londpn: Penguin 1991. 7th edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; [688]p. Summary; Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie. Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Although crushed by his faithlessness. Lily still believes she is bound to her unworthy former fiance for life and therefore condemned to remain single after his betrayal. And when a more deserving suitor pays his addresses. she is unable to see past her feelings for Crosbie. Written when Trollope was at the height of his popularity. The Small House at Allington (1864) contains his most admired heroine in Lily Dale a young woman of independent spirit who nonetheless longs to be loved and is a moving dramatization of the ways in which personal dilemmas are affected by social pressures. Subjects; Fiction in English — 1837-1900 — Texts. General & literary fiction ; Classic fiction. FICTION / Classics. Domestic fiction ; Barsetshire (England: Imaginary place). England - Social life and customs - 19th century. England - Social conditions - 19th century. Young women - England. Clergy - England. Genre; Fiction. ISBN: 0140433252. Weight in Kg appr.:

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