An Old Man's Love

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

AN OLD MAN'S LOVE (1884) by Anthony Trollope is the bittersweet final completed novel by the great master of British Victorian family sagas and sophisticated yarns of love, money, society, and relationships.

A guardian falls in love with his much younger ward and intends to marry her. His plans are undermined by the young girl's love for another, a young man who has gone in search of his fortune and who eventually returns to claim her.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934648834
Publisher:	Norilana Books
Publication date:	08/31/2008
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) started his writing career while working in Ireland as a postal surveyor. Travelling around the country, Trollope gained knowledge of the country and its people which proved to be useful material for his first two novels, The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847) and The Kellys and the O'Kellys (1848). Trollope soon started writing fiercely, producing a series entitled Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Warden, the first in the series, was published in 1855. Barchester Towers (1857), the comic masterpiece, Doctor Thorne (1858), Framley Parsonage (1861), The Small House at Allington (1864) and The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) followed, portraying events in an imaginary English county of Barsetshire. In 1867, Trollope left the Post Office to run as a candidate for the Parliament. Having lost at the elections, Trollope focused on his writing. A satire from his later writing, The Way We Live Now (1875) is often viewed as Trollope's major work, however, his popularity and writing reputation diminished at the later stage of his life. Anthony Trollope died in London in 1882.

Editorial Reviews

Written with vigour and directness.”

C. E. Dawkins

An Old Man’s Love will be welcomed by those who appreciate Trollope’s elegant prose.”

Booklist

The book [An Old Man’s Love] is not an unfitting finale to an almost unparalleled series of works in fiction.”

Saturday Review

A melancholy interest attaches to the last story we shall ever have from Anthony Trollope, and its excellence reawakens our regrets for his loss. An Old Man’s Love is...unusually compact and complete.”

1884 Times (London)