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An edition of The small house at Allington (1864)

The small house at Allington

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The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 5: The Small House at Allington

The Small House at Allington introduces Trollope's most charming heroine, the betwitching Lily Dale, onto the Barsetshire scene. She so endeared herself to readers of the Cornhill Magazine, where A Small House was first published in serial form, that Trollope was bombarded by letters begging him to marry her to her lifelong adorer Johnny Eames. Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor entrenched in the "Great House" at Allington. His sister-in-law lives at the adjacent "Small House" with her two daughters Lily and Bell, and the action centers on the relations between the two houses and on the romantic entanglements of the two girls. We also meet Sir Raffle Buffle, the bullying head of a government department, the heartless Lady Dumbello, and the shallow Adolphus Crosbie, who gets his just deserts in the form of the frigid Lady Alexandrina de Courcy.

Trollope's characteristic theme of the invasion of a pastoral, conservative world by brash and progressive forces from London gives him an opportunity in this novel for vivid, contrasting descriptions of gracious country living, with croquet and tea on the lawn, and of the cut and thrust of London life in the 1860s. - Back cover.

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The Small House at Allington
2015, Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press
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The Small House at Allington (Nonsuch Classics)
May 1, 2006, Nonsuch Publishing, Limited
Paperback in English
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Small House at Allington (World's Classics)
July 12, 2005, Oxford University Press
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The small house at Allington
1999, Everyman
in English
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The small house at Allington
1995, Penguin
in English - New edition
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The small house at Allington
1984, Oxford University Press
in English
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The Small House at Allington
March 9, 1963, Dutton Adult
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Penguin popular classics

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Dewey Decimal Class
823.8
Library of Congress
PR5684 .S55 1995

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1 v.

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Open Library
OL22575239M
Internet Archive
smallhouseatalli0000trol_q2r6
ISBN 10
0140621776
Library Thing
15243
Goodreads
3828126

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