14 Victorian Stories: Anthology

by Anthony Trollope, W.S. Gilbert, Hubert Crackanthorpe

This book includes 14 short stories by different British
ANGELA, An Inverted Love Story, by William Schwenk Gilbert
THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER OF OXNEY COLNE, by Anthony Trollope
ANTHONY GARSTIN'S COURTSHIP, by Hubert Crackanthorpe
THE WOMAN BEATER, by Israel Zangwill
THE DANCE ON THE BEEFSTEAK BY E. F. Benson
THE ORIOLISTS BY E. F. Benson
IN THE DARK BY E. F. Benson
THE FALSE STEP BY E. F. Benson
AN OLD MEERSCHAUM By David Christie Murray
THE INCONSIDERATE WAITER J. M. Barrie
THE BLACK POODLE F. Anstey
A ROSE OF THE GHETTO Israel Zangwill
AN IDYL OF LONDON Beatrice Harraden
THE HIRED BABY Marie Corelli

321 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 4, 2014

About the author

Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.

Trollope has always been a popular novelist. Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness (who never travelled without a Trollope novel), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay. Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, but he regained the esteem of critics by the mid-twentieth century.
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Reviews

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are all pretty good stories. Trollope gets top billing because of reputation, I suppose, but only one story in the collection is his. One of my favorites was "The Oriolists," by E.F. Benson, which I almost skipped because his first entry was very odd and I didn't think I would care for his other stories either. Four of the entries were written by Benson. Others I liked a little more than the rest were "The Black Poodle," by F. Anstey, and "The Inconsiderate Waiter," by J. M. Barrie. Most of the stories follow the pursuit of love, with varied results.