The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope

Description

The Small House at Allington (1864) is the fifth of Trollope’s Barsetshire chronicles and the one that most reliably breaks readers’ hearts. At its centre sits Lily Dale, living in the small house on the squire’s land, courted by two men: the honest young clerk John Eames and the dazzling London swell Adolphus Crosbie. When she trusts the wrong one and pays for it, Trollope allows her the dignity of regret without a single melodramatic gesture — and without a hope of rescue.

The book also begins Trollope’s long comic study of London clerkdom, following Eames among the lodgers and landladies of his bachelor purgatory, and it binds that world to the gentler country round Allington. No one in the nineteenth century wrote disappointed love with this much tenderness and this little fog.

Why readers still come back to it

• The novel of Lily Dale, a heroine loved and argued about for a century and a half.
• Trollope’s machinery of quiet, realistic feeling at its most relentless.
• The perfect bridge between the Barsetshire chronicles and the Palliser novels.

About this DodaBooks edition

Carefully set for long-form fiction: clean typography, a complete working table of contents, and steady chapter pacing for devoted readers. Allington is reached in the file the moment your order is placed.