Anthony Trollope
23 livros
- Barchester Towers EnglishYou settle into Barchester Towers for its sly, patient comedy, watching Mrs Proudie and Mr Slope turn church politics into open warfare while Eleanor Bold tries to keep her judgment. It takes its time, but Trollope’s social observation is so precise that even a drawing-room pause can feel like a small battle.
- Can You Forgive Her? EnglishAlice Vavasor can't decide between two men and keeps making it worse, and Trollope refuses to mock her for it. It's long and unhurried, but Glencora Palliker's miserable marriage sneaks up and becomes the real heart, and the widow Greenow's suitors are genuinely funny.
- Cousin Henry EnglishMost of it is one miserable man alone in a library, staring at the shelf where a hidden will sits, too cowardly to burn it or reveal it, and somehow that's riveting. If you like Trollope small-scale and psychological rather than sprawling, this is a quiet treat.
- Doctor Thorne EnglishTrollope basically tells you how it ends early on, and it doesn't matter a bit, because you're there for the company: Mary Thorne quietly holding her ground, Frank dithering, Lady Arabella scheming over money. Unhurried and gossipy in the best way, if you like that pace.
- Dr. Wortle’s School EnglishTrollope at his most compact and generous: a stubborn, warm-hearted headmaster decides to stand by a teacher whose marriage hides a genuine scandal, and you spend the book watching decency wrestle with gossip. Quiet, funny about clergymen, and shorter than his usual doorstops.
- Framley Parsonage EnglishYou’ll settle happily into Mark Robarts’s uneasy friendship with the slippery Nathaniel Sowerby, where one small social favor starts troubling an otherwise respectable life. Trollope is gentle, funny, and wonderfully sharp about patronage, marriage, and the difference between seeming good and choosing well.
- Harry Heathcote of Gangoil EnglishYou get a compact, quietly tense Trollope about Harry Heathcote trying to protect Gangoil, his family, and his workers as bushfires threaten the Australian station. It has the familiar pleasure of watching a decent, anxious man choose responsibility over comfort, though the Christmas sentiment runs a little warm.
- He Knew He Was Right EnglishYou get a sharp study of jealousy as Louis Trevelyan turns suspicion about Colonel Osborne into a test of his marriage to Emily. It’s long, often funny at the edges, but pride makes ordinary affection feel impossible.
- Orley Farm EnglishTrollope spends six hundred leisurely pages on one forged will, and somehow you end up rooting for the forger. Lady Mason's quiet dread gets under your skin, and the courtroom scenes with old Chaffanbrass are wonderfully sly.
- Phineas Finn EnglishYou follow a likable, slightly weak young Irishman into Parliament and watch ambition, money, and three or four remarkable women (Lady Laura especially will break your heart a bit) tangle him up. Slow and gossipy in the best way, if you enjoy politics as human drama.
- Phineas Redux EnglishTrollope puts poor Phineas on trial for murder halfway through, and the fun is watching everyone who fawned over him quietly back away while Madame Max does the actual detective work. It's long and unhurried, but if political gossip and slow-burn loyalty appeal, you'll settle right in.
- Rachel Ray EnglishYou’ll like Rachel Ray for its quiet pressure: Rachel’s love for Luke Rowan has to survive village gossip, a domineering sister, and her mother’s anxious idea of respectability. It’s a slower, domestic Trollope, but his dry eye for small-town judgment makes Rachel’s eventual steadiness feel hard-won rather than sugary.
- Short Fiction EnglishTrollope in small doses is looser and funnier than the doorstop novels suggest; you get things like a woman slapping a mustard plaster on a stranger's throat in a Paris hotel, then squirming through breakfast. Good bedside reading, gentle pace, more amused than dramatic.
- The American Senator EnglishYou get Trollope’s dry social comedy at its most pointed, with Elias Gotobed delivering blunt American verdicts on English aristocracy and fox-hunting society while Arabella Trefoil treats courtship as strategy. It’s sprawling and occasionally slow, but rewarding if you enjoy watching manners, money, and marriage expose people.
- The Claverings EnglishHarry Clavering gets jilted for a rich old lord, then finds the widow back on his doorstep just after he's engaged to someone kinder, and Trollope refuses to make him a hero or a villain. If you like watching a decent, weak man squirm honestly, this is quietly satisfying.
- The Duke’s Children EnglishIf you've spent any time with the Pallisers, this is the tender payoff: Plantagenet, newly widowed, trying to father grown children who keep falling in love with the wrong people. It's slower and sadder than the political books, and watching his stiffness soften is quietly moving.
- The Eustace Diamonds EnglishYou watch Lizzie Eustace bluff, scheme, and plead over a supposedly priceless diamond necklace, while Trollope patiently exposes the vanity and self-deception of polite society. It takes its time, but her nerve, self-pity, and sheer improvisational audacity keep the social comedy wonderfully alive.
- The Last Chronicle of Barset EnglishMr. Crawley, a proud, half-broken country curate accused of stealing a twenty-pound cheque, is one of the most painfully real people Trollope ever wrote, and you'll ache for him. It's long and unhurried, but if you like character over plot, this rewards every page.
- The Prime Minister EnglishYou watch the conscientious Plantagenet Palliser enter Downing Street while Glencora, his politically shrewd wife, tries to make power livable; Trollope makes cabinet meetings and dinner parties equally revealing. It moves patiently, but the moral pressure around Ferdinand Lopez gives the novel real bite.
- The Small House at Allington EnglishTrollope takes his time, but Lily Dale getting jilted by Crosbie (a man too weak to be a proper villain) turns into something quietly devastating, and poor Johnny Eames will win you over. Good if you like watching ordinary people make believable mistakes at length.
- The Vicar of Bullhampton EnglishFrank Fenwick is a vicar who fights dirty for people the parish would rather forget, especially Carry Brattle, whose gruff old father can't forgive her. It moves at Trollope's ambling pace, but if you like decent people being stubborn about kindness, this one quietly earns its keep.
- The Warden EnglishA small, quiet book where the whole drama is one gentle old man's conscience: Mr Harding playing his cello while everyone (the press, his blustering son-in-law, a well-meaning reformer) fights over him. If you like kindness taken seriously, this one rewards patience.
- The Way We Live Now EnglishYou get a sprawling social comedy where Augustus Melmotte bulldozes through London society while Lady Carbury turns ambition into novels. It asks patience with its courtships and financial schemes, but the pleasure lies in watching vanity, decency, and self-deception collide.