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 Prime Minister : Plantagenet Palliser at the Head of a Coalition
He Knew He Was Right : A Husband Destroyed by His Own Suspicion
An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope : The Post Office, the Novels and the Money
Can You Forgive Her? : Three Women and Their Choices of Husband
The Kellys and the O'Kellys : or, Landlords and Tenants
Framley Parsonage : A Young Parson in Debt to His Betters
The Small House at Allington : The Fifth Chronicle of Barsetshire
The Way We Live Now : London Seduced by a Financial Swindler
The Warden : Mr. Harding and the Income of Hiram's Hospital
The Last Chronicle of Barset : A Clergyman Accused of Theft
Phineas Finn : The Irish Member