County Cork, 1846: the potato has failed, the roads are full of people walking to nowhere, and a family of the Protestant gentry is entangled in a question of legitimacy and an inheritance. Trollope worked for the Post Office in Ireland for eighteen years and was there through the Famine; this novel puts a conventional love plot in front of the thing he had actually seen, and the Famine chapters are the reason to read it.
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The Small House at Allington : The Fifth Chronicle of Barsetshire
Phineas Finn : The Irish Member
Framley Parsonage : A Young Parson in Debt to His Betters
He Knew He Was Right : A Husband Destroyed by His Own Suspicion
The Kellys and the O'Kellys : or, Landlords and Tenants
The Warden : Mr. Harding and the Income of Hiram's Hospital
An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope : The Post Office, the Novels and the Money
The Way We Live Now : London Seduced by a Financial Swindler
An Old Man's Love : A Late Novel of Guardianship
The Duke's Children : A Widowed Duke and Three Marriages
Can You Forgive Her? : Three Women and Their Choices of Husband