From 12th August to 4th November 2024 join Trollope enthusiasts from across the world every second Monday to discuss The Duke’s Children as we read it together on Zoom.

Professor Steven Amarnick will give the introductory talk on the restoration of the text of The Duke’s Children. Professor Amarnick painstakingly reviewed Trollope’s original manuscript of the novel, restoring 65,000 words that Trollope had been made to cut for its original publication in All The Year Round, Oct. 4, 1879-July 24, 1880.

Prof. Steven Amarnick joined the Kingsborough English Department in the fall of 2000. He teaches freshman composition, developmental, and literature courses. Prof. Amarnick has written widely on the work of British novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) and curated an exhibit, “Anthony Trollope: The Art of Modesty,” at NYU’s Fales Library. Soon after coming to Kingsborough, he received a PSC-CUNY grant to study The Duke’s Children, the final novel in Trollope’s famed Palliser series. Though his intention at the time was merely to write an article about the heavily edited, thousand-page manuscript, Prof. Amarnick came to see that the cuts Trollope was forced to make by his publisher severely damaged the novel, and that it was possible to figure out what Trollope’s intentions were.With the help of two assistants, Prof. Amarnick has done the painstaking, and immensely satisfying, work of reconstruction, adding two hundred pages of “new” material to the book. The Duke’s Children: First Complete Edition, was published in spring 2015 by the Folio Society–in time for Trollope’s bicentenary.

We will be reading the restored text of the first complete edition, which is available in several editions:

• Folio Society, published 2015
• Everyman’s Library, published 2017
• Oxford World’s Classics, published 2021

Register free for the complete 2024 BIG READ

You only need to register once, you can then attend any of the 2024 BIG READ Zoom meetings without needing to register again. You can cancel your registration at any time.

• 12 August 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 1-12
• 26 August 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 13-24
• 9 September 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 25-35
• 23 September 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 36-46
• 7 October 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 47-57
• 21 October 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 58-68
• 4 November 2024 – The Duke’s Children, Chapters 69-80
• 18 November 2024 – An Autobiography, Chapters 1-10
• 2 December 2024 – An Autobiography, Chapters 11-20
• 16 December 2024 – Christmas Stories, Story tbc

Click here to register to attend the The Duke’s Children BIG READ Zoom meetings

We will send you an email with instructions on how to join and the password. Using Zoom is easy, just click on the link in the email and follow the instructions. Please note that you will not be able to join the meeting until 8.00pm (UK time) on the day.