John Bull on the Guadalquivir

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

a Short Story by Anthony Trollope

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609779634
Publisher:	Start Classics
Publication date:	05/01/2014
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	24
File size:	352 KB

About the Author

Anthony Trollope's father, Thomas Anthony Trollope, worked as a barrister. Thomas Trollope, though a clever and well-educated man and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, failed at the bar due to his bad temper. In addition, his ventures into farming proved unprofitable and he lost an expected inheritance when an elderly uncle married and had children. Nonetheless, he came from a genteel background, with connections to the landed gentry, and so wished to educate his sons as gentlemen and for them to attend Oxford or Cambridge. The disparity between his family's social background and its poverty would be the cause of much misery to Anthony Trollope during his boyhood.