Anthony Trollope
23 books by Anthony Trollope to read free, each with its best passages and lines, and the best quotes from all of them below.
Where to start
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Barchester Towers
The affections of a young widow are at play while rival clerical factions contend for control over church matters in the cathedral city of Barchester.
198,543 words, about 14 hours
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The Way We Live Now
The rise of a business magnate with a suspicious background creates ripples among society and affects the fortunes of several young men and women in London.
349,872 words, about 25 hours
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The Warden
In a cathedral town in England, a minor cleric becomes involved in a dispute about the wardenship of a hospital for superannuated wool-carders, and suffers pangs of conscience.
72,357 words, about 5 hours
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Framley Parsonage
A young vicar with an aristocratic patron foolishly becomes mired in debt.
208,354 words, about 15 hours
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The Small House at Allington
An innocent young woman agrees to marry a socialite but is devastated when he opts to break his commitment and marry the daughter of an Earl.
256,917 words, about 18 hours
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Doctor Thorne
A provincial doctor struggles to assist his illegitimately-born niece in achieving a place in local society.
217,325 words, about 15 hours
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Phineas Finn
A young Irishman attempts to establish himself as a member of Parliament while finding his way in high society.
261,253 words, about 18 hours
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Rachel Ray
The attractions of a young woman provoke both admiration and antipathy in her local town.
142,809 words, about 10 hours
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The Last Chronicle of Barset
An impoverished clergyman is accused of theft, and this disgrace leads to great suffering for both his family and those that love them.
343,291 words, about 24 hours
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Can You Forgive Her?
A young woman is torn between marrying a man she loves and respects, and a man she once loved and now fears.
314,445 words, about 22 hours
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Cousin Henry
Indecision over the discovery of a hidden will drives a rejected heir to the edge of madness.
71,275 words, about 5 hours
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Dr. Wortle’s School
A scandal that threatens the future of an exclusive boys’ school poses a moral dilemma for its headmaster.
76,935 words, about 5 hours
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Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
The imperious nature of a young farmer arouses sharp hostilities from his neighbors as Christmas approaches.
41,085 words, about 3 hours
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He Knew He Was Right
An older lothario interferes in the lives of a young married couple, driving them apart as each maintains their own innocence.
340,085 words, about 24 hours
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Orley Farm
A middle-aged widow is taken to court over her husband’s will, twenty years after his death.
308,220 words, about 22 hours
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Phineas Redux
A young Irishman returns to parliamentary life only to encounter obstacles which threaten to bring his aspirations to an untimely end.
260,051 words, about 18 hours
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Short Fiction
A collection of Anthony Trollope’s short stories, ordered by date of first publication.
486,240 words, about 34 hours
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The American Senator
While an American senator appraises the institutions of England, hunting for foxes and spouses goes on in a rural English town.
207,348 words, about 15 hours
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The Claverings
An aspirational young man must decide between his wealthy and widowed first love, and his affianced and honest second.
206,182 words, about 14 hours
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The Duke’s Children
A widowed duke struggles to come to terms with the choices of his children as they attain adulthood.
222,567 words, about 16 hours
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The Eustace Diamonds
A young widow wreaks havoc as she attempts to maintain possession of a valuable diamond necklace from her late husband’s estate.
267,498 words, about 19 hours
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The Prime Minister
A duke leads a coalition government while doubting his capacity to do so.
280,916 words, about 20 hours
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The Vicar of Bullhampton
The vicar of a rural parish is the epicenter for conflicts in love, law, and church affairs in his Wiltshire town.
208,262 words, about 15 hours
Anthony Trollope quotes
The race was so very close, and the stakes were so very high.
I am not strong enough to put the world straight, and I doubt if you are.
Scandal at Barchester affirmed that had it not been for the beauty of his daughter, Mr. Harding would have remained a minor canon; but here probably Scandal lied, as she so often does;
He had large capabilities for good—and aptitudes also for evil, quite enough: quite enough to make it needful that he should repel temptation as temptation only can be repelled.
Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?
Foolishly, like a foolish moth, he flew to the bright light, and, like the moths, of course he burnt his wings.
Dr. Finn, of Killaloe, in county Clare, was as well known in those parts—the confines, that is, of the counties Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, and Galway—as was the bishop himself who lived in the same town, and was as much respected.
There are women who cannot grow alone as standard trees;—for whom the support and warmth of some wall, some paling, some post, is absolutely necessary;
A man rarely carries himself meanly, whom the world holds high in esteem.
Of old Lady Macleod I think I may say that she was a good woman;—that she was a good woman, though subject to two of the most serious drawbacks to goodness which can afflict a lady.
“I have a conscience, my dear, on this matter,” said an old gentleman to a young lady, as the two were sitting in the breakfast parlour of a country house which looked down from the cliffs over the sea on the coast of Carmarthenshire.
The Rev. Jeffrey Wortle, D.D., was a man much esteemed by others—and by himself.
I can’t understand why free-selectors and mosquitoes should have been introduced into the arrangements of the world.
When Louis Trevelyan was twenty-four years old, he had all the world before him where to choose; and, among other things, he chose to go to the Mandarin Islands, and there fell in love with Emily Rowley, the daughter of Sir Marmaduke, the governor.
It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet.
A seat in Parliament, if it be for five or six years, is a blessing; but the blessing becomes very questionable if it have to be sought afresh every other Session.
It boots not here to describe the effects which gunpowder and grapeshot had had on the walls of Antwerp.
I never could understand why anybody should ever have begun to live at Dillsborough, or why the population there should have been at any time recruited by newcomers.
I don’t like the snuff of a candle, and, therefore, I am going to be married well.
No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend, the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died.