Anthony Trollope

For an immensely popular novelist, Anthony Trollope led a pretty unusual career, serving in various positions in Britain's General Post Office and even campaigning for a seat in the House of Commons while continuing to produce novels and other works at an astonishing rate. In this 1913 volume, T. H. S. Escott provides a comprehensive overview of the prolific novelist's life and works, chronicling his career at the Post Office, his tenure in Ireland, his travels around the world, his disastrous political campaign, and of course, his abundant literary career. For fans of Trollope's work or even those just interested in the story of a fascinatingly unusual nineteenth-century life, this volume provides a glimpse of the man behind the novels.