Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Peer of Dickens, Eliot, and Thackeray, Trollope still does not quite have their reputation. And yet the reasons for his occasional disrepute—his civil service career, his modesty, his fecundity, his sanity, his professionalism—are really rare virtues which ought to excite admiration. Snow's well-illustrated and informative critical biography is justifiably admiring but a little shallow. Trollope's mundane magic is hard to catch." Reviewed by Robert Jackson, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)