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After a brilliant career at Oxford, Harry Clavering lost his beloved Julia Brabazon to the dissolute Lord Ongar. Now Lady Ongar is a widow and attempts to rekindle her old romance. However, Harry is engaged to the daughter of his employer. Harry has to choose between these two women. But Harry Clavering vacillates, and the rich tapestry of mid-nineteenth century Victorian England unfolds further in this second volume of Anthony Trollope's The Claverings. This tapestry is interweaved with the subtle sub-plots of a master novelist, as Julia entertains the offers of suitors after her money,...

It is impossible to be sure who Melmotte is, let alone what exactly he has done. He is, seemingly, a gentleman, and a great financier, who penetrates to the heart of the state, reaching even inside the Houses of Parliament. He draws the English establishment into his circle, including Lady Carbury, a 43 year-old coquette and her son Felix, who is persuaded to invest in a notional railway business. Huge sums of money are at stake, as well as romantic happiness.

The Way We Live...

Marion Fay is a Quaker's daughter courted by the idealistic Lord Hampstead. Meanwhile, his best friend, the impoverished George Roden, is in love with the Lord's noble sister. Differences of class and situation create romantic drama in typical Trollope fashion.

After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop, Archdeacon Grantly, resentment and suspicion threaten to cause deep divisions within the diocese. Trollope's masterly depiction of the plotting and back-stabbing that ensues lies at the heart of one of the most vivid and comic of his Barsetshire novels, peopled...

Residents of the "small" Dower house at Allington, the two Dale sisters Lily and Bell face complicated romantic entanglements, including heartbreak, faithful friendship, and love.