An Old Man's Love

First published in 1884, two years after Anthony Trollope's death, An Old Man's Love is one of the final novels of a master storyteller at the height of his powers. Mr. Whittlestaff, a comfortable, kind-hearted bachelor of sixty, takes into his home Mary Lawrie, the orphaned daughter of an old friend — and finds, to his own astonishment, that he has fallen in love with her. When John Gordon, the young man Mary once loved, returns from South Africa to claim her, Trollope stages one of fiction's most tender dilemmas: between the claims of youth and age, generosity and self-sacrifice, what does the heart owe itself, and what does it owe another? This edition presents the COMPLETE, UNABRIDGED original text, together with a new introduction and reader's notes illuminating the novel's themes, context, and place in Trollope's late career. Part of The Founding Texts Library.