Mary Gresley and an Editor's Tales

by Anthony Trollope

Mary Gresley and an Editor's Tales by Anthony Trollope

372 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 27, 2017

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

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've only read a dozen or so of Trollope's short stories, but I think I prefer his writing on a larger canvas. The stories are sometimes schlocky and sometimes grim, and grim is overrepresented in this collection. One of these stories (The Spotted Dog) is a slow-motion train wreck driven by an alcoholic couple, in which the outcome is obvious from a mile away. In another story he sketches a would-be writer who reminds me of Donald Trump, if Donald Trump had been a bonnet-wearing Victorian matron.

I think I'll keep nibbling away at the short fiction while I am working my way through Trollope's novels, but it seems unlikely to be my favorite part of this project.