John Caldigate
BIG READ

Monday 23rd June, 8pm (UK)

Chapters 14-26
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Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected novelists of the Victorian era.

His perceptive novels remain relevant today, and his reputation continues to grow with each passing year.

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People are so much more worldly in practice than they are in theory, so much keener after their own gratification in detail than they are in the abstract.

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Barsetshire was Somerset, but Barchester was Winchester, not Wells.

Trollope in conversation with an Oxford don, 1882.