John Caldigate

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

John Caldigate has run up a great many debts and quarreled with his father, a stern stubborn man. In an attempt to put matters right he has become indebted to Davis, a money lender, and his father no longer wants him to be heir to Folking, their family home. To escape the intolerable situation, John and his old friend Dick Shand decide to try their luck at gold-mining in Australia. When they meet the enigmatic and socially shunned Mrs. Euphemia Smith on board ship, however, their troubles are just beginning. The story of John's subsequent liaison with her, his success in Australia and his ignominious return to England makes this one of Trollope's most ingeniously plotted and intriguing novels.

Serialized in 1878 and 1879, some ten years after Trollope's second son left England for Australia, John Caldigate shows Trollope drawing on his own family experience. It appeared in book form in 1879.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781490347332
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/04/2013
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.01(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.