The Parson’s Daughter and Other Stories

by Anthony Trollope

228 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1941

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

[Jiwon Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

It felt like a gossip column than a short story quite honestly. I think out of them, I enjoyed La Mere Bauche the most: A mother's greed ruining her son's life by having his love commit suicide is not a common theme in modern literature.
It could be that I'm too unfamiliar with Victorian era literature to fully appreciate his works, so I will give it another read in 3 years and see if I like it any better.