Dr. Wortle's School
By Anthony TrollopeIntroduction by Mick ImlahNotes by Mick Imlah
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$18.00
Published on Dec 01, 1999 | 256 Pages
Published on Dec 01, 1999 | 256 Pages
With its scathing depiction of American manhood, its jousting with convention and its amiable, egotistical protagonist, Dr Wortle’s School(1879) is one of the sharpest and most engaging of Trollope’s later novels.
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) was born in London to a bankrupt barrister father and a mother who, as a well-known writer, supported the family. Trollope enjoyed considerable acclaim both as a novelist and as a senior civil servant in the Post Office. He published more than forty novels and many short stories that are regarded by some as among the greatest of nineteenth-century fiction.
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