The book is a romantic novel by famed author Anthony Trollope. It is set in the town of Oxney Colne, a farming town in Devonshire. Patience is the local parson's daughter and is quite close to him as his remaining parent. But when the celebrated Captain Broughton, son of a wealthy nobleman visits, young Patience falls in love with him. All that remains is for the Captain to ask for her father's permission to marry his daughter.

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. In 1867 Trollope left his position in the British Post Office to run for Parliament as a Liberal candidate in 1868. After he lost, he concentrated entirely on his literary career. While continuing to produce novels rapidly, he also edited the St Paul's Magazine, which published several of his novels in serial form. His first major success came with The Warden (1855) - the first of six novels set in the fictional county of Barsetshire. The comic masterpiece Barchester Towers (1857) has probably become the best-known of these.

Anthony Trollope's classic short work.

The title of this four-volume set is accurate, and the following description gives only a small sense of the scope and detail of this scholarly labor of love. The first two volumes comprise a survey of all 47 novels written by Trollope (1815-1882), with chapter-by-chapter plot summaries and lists of characters identified in Trollope's works and arranged in hierarchical importance. The third volume gives similar treatment to short stories, sketches, and plays and includes a glossary covering the entire oeuvre and a series of 17 indexes, among other materials. Trollope's nonfiction pieces are treated in Volume 4, arranged by subject, followed by an extensive "Topicon," which constitutes a topical concordance to Trollope's works. Newlin's affiliation is not stated, but his involvement and expertise, of course, are plainly evident; he has prepared this reference for an audience of like mind. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The title of this four-volume set is accurate, and the following description gives only a small sense of the scope and detail of this scholarly labor of love. The first two volumes comprise a survey of all 47 novels written by Trollope (1815-1882), with chapter-by-chapter plot summaries and lists of characters identified in Trollope's works and arranged in hierarchical importance. The third volume gives similar treatment to short stories, sketches, and plays and includes a glossary covering the entire oeuvre and a series of 17 indexes, among other materials. Trollope's nonfiction pieces are treated in Volume 4, arranged by subject, followed by an extensive "Topicon," which constitutes a topical concordance to Trollope's works. Newlin's affiliation is not stated, but his involvement and expertise, of course, are plainly evident; he has prepared this reference for an audience of like mind. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The title of this four-volume set is accurate, and the following description gives only a small sense of the scope and detail of this scholarly labor of love. The first two volumes comprise a survey of all 47 novels written by Trollope (1815-1882), with chapter-by-chapter plot summaries and lists of characters identified in Trollope's works and arranged in hierarchical importance. The third volume gives similar treatment to short stories, sketches, and plays and includes a glossary covering the entire oeuvre and a series of 17 indexes, among other materials. Trollope's nonfiction pieces are treated in Volume 4, arranged by subject, followed by an extensive "Topicon," which constitutes a topical concordance to Trollope's works. Newlin's affiliation is not stated, but his involvement and expertise, of course, are plainly evident; he has prepared this reference for an audience of like mind. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

More than 4,500 characters are analyzed and thousands more minor characters presented in this monumental resource. Volumes I and II cover the novels - Volume III covers the shorter fiction - and nonfiction works are covered in Volume IV, along with a thematic concordance on nearly every aspect of life that Trollope wrote about.