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2	Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was a prolific English author. In a writing career of thirty-five years, he wrote forty-seven novels, seven non-fiction books, dozens of short stories, two plays, and an autobiography.
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4	Trollope's narrative style is distinctive. He tells you what his characters do and say, what they are thinking, and what he thinks about what they are doing and thinking. Call it "third-person omniscient and chatty".
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6	The typical Trollope novel is at least six hundred pages long and contains three or more plotlines. One plot is always a love plot. Within the first hundred pages, a young man and a young woman fall in love. But there's always something in the way. Sometimes the girl has a case of WrongGuyFirst. Sometimes the boy has a previous engagement. Sometimes the couple has no money to live on. Sometimes there's a ParentalMarriageVeto, perhaps caused by the lack of money. Don't worry; Trollope's love plots almost always have happy endings.
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8	The other plots can be about anything: a perjury trial (''Orley Farm''), the collapse of a marriage (''He Knew He Was Right''), a clergyman accused of theft (''The Last Chronicle of Barset''), life in the British Civil Service (''The Three Clerks''), a massive stock swindle (''The Way We Live Now''), or British parliamentary politics (''Phineas Finn'', ''Phineas Redux'', and ''The Prime Minister''). These plots can have bittersweet or even downer endings.
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10	Incidentally, his family has produced an astonishing number of authors. His mother (Frances Milton Trollope), his brother (Thomas Adolphus Trollope), and two of his sisters-in-law (Theodosia Trollope and Frances Eleanor Trollope[[note]]who was also the sister of Ellen Ternan, the mistress of Creator/CharlesDickens[[/note]]) were all authors, and the 20th- and 21st-century author Joanna Trollope is distantly related to him.
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14	[[folder: Novels]]
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16	* ''Literature/TheMacdermotsOfBallycloran'' (completed in 1845, published in 1847)
17	* ''Literature/TheKellysAndTheOKellys'' (1848)
18	* ''Literature/LaVendee: An Historical Romance'' (1850)
19	* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfBarsetshire''
20	** ''The Warden'' (1855)
21	** ''Barchester Chronicles'' (1857)
22	** ''Doctor Thorne'' (1858)
23	** ''Framley Parsonage'' (1861)
24	** ''The Small House at Allington'' (1864)
25	** ''The Last Chronicle of Barset'' (1867)
26	* ''The Three Clerks'' (1858)
27	* ''The Bertrams'' (1859)
28	* ''Castle Richmond'' (1860)
29	* ''Orley Farm'' (1862)
30	* ''The Struggles of Brown, Jones & Robinson'' (1862)
31	* ''Rachel Ray'' (1863)
32	* The ''Literature/{{Palliser}}'' series
33	** ''Can You Forgive Her?'' (1865)
34	** ''Phineas Finn'' (1869)
35	** ''The Eustace Diamonds'' (1873)
36	** ''Phineas Redux'' (1874)
37	** ''The Prime Minister'' (1876)
38	** ''The Duke's Children'' (1880)
39	* ''Miss Mackenzie'' (1865)
40	* ''The Belton Estate'' (1866)
41	* ''The Claverings'' (1867)
42	* ''Nina Balatka'' (1867)
43	* ''Linda Tressel'' (1868)
44	* ''He Knew He Was Right'' (1869)
45	* ''The Vicar of Bullhampton'' (1870)
46	* ''Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite'' (1871)
47	* ''Ralph the Heir'' (1871)
48	* ''The Golden Lion of Granpère'' (1872)
49	* ''Harry Heathcote of Gangoil'' (1874)
50	* ''Lady Anna'' (1874)
51	* ''Literature/TheWayWeLiveNow'' (1875)
52	* ''The American Senator'' (1877)
53	* ''Is He Popenjoy?'' (1878)
54	* ''John Caldigate'' (1879)
55	* ''An Eye for an Eye'' (1879)
56	* ''Cousin Henry'' (1879)
57	* ''Ayala's Angel'' (1881)
58	* ''Doctor Wortle's School'' (1881)
59	* ''The Fixed Period'' (1882)
60	* ''Kept in the Dark'' (1882)
61	* ''Marion Fay'' (1882)
62	* ''Mr. Scarborough's Family'' (1883, published posthumously)
63	* ''The Landleaguers'' (1883, unfinished, published posthumously)
64	* ''An Old Man's Love'' (1884, published posthumously)
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68	!!Tropes found in Trollope's other works include:
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70	* BittersweetEnding: ''Lady Anna.'' It's not at all clear that this marriage [[spoiler: will be a pleasant one]].
71	* BreakingTheFourthWall: One of the hallmarks of Trollope's narrative voice.
72	* CreatorInJoke [=/=] SelfDeprecation: In ''Barchester Towers'', Trollope mentions an author who, "wishing to sustain his interest to the last page, hung his hero at the end of the third volume. The consequence was that no one would read his novel." The author was Trollope himself, and the novel was his debut, ''The Macdermots of Ballycloran''.
73	* DoorStopper: The best-known novels all come out at seven, eight, or nine hundred pages. In ''On Writing'', Creator/StephenKing refers to ''Can You Forgive Her?'' as ''Can You Finish It?'' Trollope may have been a victim of his own success here. ''An Eye for An Eye'', ''Lady Anna'', and some other shorter works of his were masterpieces, but he became known as a good Doorstopper writer which may have hindered their longevity.
74	* {{Eagleland}}: Americans are caricatured as loud, brash and self-centred in several of his novels.
75	* LemonyNarrator: Trollope regularly makes snarky comments at his characters' expense, especially when they're doing something foolish.
76	* LoveDodecahedron: In ''Ayala's Angel'', the title character is beloved by Tom Tringle, Jonathan Stubbs, and Captain Batsby, but Batsby also takes a fancy to Tom's sister Gertrude, who wants to marry Frank Houston, who is in love with his cousin Imogen Docimer. Meanwhile Lady Albury has an interesting relationship with Stubbs, but is determined not to cheat on her husband Sir Harry. Also Tom's other sister Augusta accuses Ayala of trying to steal her fiancé, the honourable Septimus Traffik.
77	* MadnessMantra: At the start of ''An Eye for an Eye'', we are introduced to a madwoman who incessantly repeats "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. Is that not the law?" The rest of the book is a flashback that explains what made the woman go mad.
78	* MistakenForCheating: ''He Knew He Was Right'' features a husband who becomes fixated on his wife's non-existent adultery.
79	* MoneyDearBoy: Trollope's ''Autobiography'' shocked many contemporary readers, thanks to Trollope's undisguised interest in earning good money for his fiction.
80	-->"It may interest some if I state that during the last twenty years I have made by literature something near £70,000. As I have said before in these pages, I look upon the result as comfortable, but not splendid."
81	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: ''Is He Popenjoy?'', based on the Tichborne Case (which dragged on so long that it was still in the courts when Trollope's final deadline arrived, leaving him to end the novel on an inconclusive note).
82	* TwoLinesNoWaiting: There are sometimes three, four, five, or more plots in his novels.

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