Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personali…
The Way We Live Now
Read by Debra Lynn
The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialization. It was reg…
Lady Anna
Read by Simon Evers
When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the readi…
Miss Mackenzie
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The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself wi…
The Warden
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Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, …
Barchester Towers
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This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barche…
Can You Forgive Her?
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“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. It introdu…
The Belton Estate
Read by Kirsten Wever
Clara Amedroz is the virtuous, intelligent, and quick-witted heroine of this novel. Like all women of her time, she has few options other th…
The Life of Cicero, Vol. I
Read by Philippa
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the tu…
John Caldigate
Read by Simon Evers
After a rather dissolute youth and having been disowned by his father, John Caldigate sets sail for Australia with his friend Dick Shand hop…
Castle Richmond
Read by Simon Evers
Set against the background of the Irish famine in the 1840’s, the novel tells of the tangled relationships between Clara Desmond, Herbert Fi…
Rachel Ray
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The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman - wis…
He Knew He Was Right
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He Knew He Was Right is a 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollope which describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealou…
The Eustace Diamonds
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Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. Wh…
The Small House at Allington
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Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her t…
The Warden (version 3)
Read by Nick Whitley
The Warden is the first novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", making fun of the Church of E…
Framley Parsonage
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Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in se…
Phineas Finn the Irish Member
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Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irish…
Orley Farm
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English langua…
Christmas at Thompson Hall
Read by Arnold
"A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale"; tells of a night time encounter between relatives who had never before met, resulting in minor i…
The Three Clerks (version 2)
Read by Anthony Ogus
Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk…
Barchester Towers (version 2)
Read by Nick Whitley
Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the 2nd novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It f…
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar…
Ayala's Angel
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Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their …
The Claverings
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"I consider the story as a whole to he good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict." - the author T…
Ralph the Heir
Read by Arnold
As usual, Trollope creates a nice variety of characters of different English classes, sentiments and positions. The primary themes are the i…
The Life of Cicero, Vol. II
Read by Philippa
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the tu…
Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
A collection of five stories by Anthony Trollope: Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices; The Lady of Launay;Christmas at Thompson Hall; The Te…
The Vicar of Bullhampton
Read by Angel5
This little-known but engrossing Trollope novel, published in 1870, centers on a feisty small-town clergyman, his cantankerous neighbor, the…
The Prime Minister
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The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new c…
Phineas Redux
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Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas…
Marion Fay
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Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to …
The Duke's Children
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In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, findin…
Short Story Collection Vol. 055
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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 055: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, i…
Doctor Wortle's School
Read by Angel5
Anthony Trollope’s fortieth novel, published in 1881, concerns a respectable Christian boys’ school whose proprietor unknowingly hires a wom…
The Warden (version 2)
Read by Jessica Louise
Anthony Trollope sets the scene for his wonderful Chronicles of Barsetshire with this short novel about Septimus Harding's challenged eccles…
Doctor Thorne (version 2)
Read by Nick Whitley
This is the third book in The Chronicles of Barsetshire, the first two being The Warden and Barchester Towers; however, although some charac…
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
Read by Jessica Louise
Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-depr…
Nina Balatka
Read by Anthony Ogus
A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In this short novel, Trollope moves away from his usual milieu to explore a theme whic…
Kept in the Dark
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Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope. It was published in eight monthly installments in 1882, a…
Is He Popenjoy ?
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Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
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Sir Harry Hotspur’s only son and heir dies young which means that the title goes to a cousin, George Hotspur. Sir Harry wants the ancestral …
Mr Scarborough's Family
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MR SCARBOROUGH, wealthy owner of Tretton Park in Staffordshire, is dying. His eldest son and heir Mountjoy has gambled away his inheritance …
The Two Heroines of Plumplington
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In the small English Town of Plumplington the daughter of a brewer and that of a banker each has selected her future husband contrary to the…
The Golden Lion of Granpere
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Time to do a short Continental trip with Trollope and see if we agree with Walpole. "...not only Trollope's very best shorter book, but…
Linda Tressel
Read by Simon Evers
Linda Tressel lives a lonely life with her domineering aunt, Madame Staubach, in a large house in Nuremberg. Madame Staubach takes in the od…
Cousin Henry
Read by Jean Bascom
Indefer Jones struggles to name an heir to his estate. Will he choose his favorite niece, Isabel, or a male heir? The story turns on the tro…
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
Read by Simon Evers
Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…
The American Senator
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The American Senator is a novel written in 1875 by Anthony Trollope. Although not one of Trollope's better-known works, it is notable for it…
An Eye for an Eye
Read by Anthony Ogus
A short but typical Trollope romance in which a young nobleman is torn between love for an impoverished Irish girl and the expectations of h…
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson
Read by Arnold
Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business…
An Old Man's Love
Read by Arnold
This was Trollope's last completed novel, and he may have acquired his sympathy for older lovers with age! A not-so-very-old man, Mr. Whittl…
The Bertrams
Read by Arnold
This is a massive effort, taking place in England and the Middle East, with a cast of thousands... Well, not thousands, fortunately, but cer…
The Macdermots of Ballycloran
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This is the story of the Macdermots of Ballycloran the story is about the tragic demise of a landowning family. Larry Macdermot lives in a d…
The Last Chronicle of Barset (version 2)
Read by Steve Gough
LibriVox reader Nicholas Clifford calls this Trollope's best novel in his introduction to the collaborative version of this fine novel - and…
Victorian Short Stories: Tales of Courtship
Read by Lynne T
A selection of five short stories with the theme of courtship, written during the Victorian era and previously published elsewhere. - Summar…
Alice Dugdale
Read by Anthony Ogus
An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…
The Landleaguers
Read by Angel5
Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land…
The Three Clerks
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The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a…
Framley Parsonage (version 2)
Read by Nick Whitley
Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. It was first published in serial …
The Fixed Period
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This book is set in 1980 in the Republic of Britannula, which is a fictional island near New Zealand. It deals with euthanasia as a radical …
Aaron Trow
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What is it like to be a fox hunted by hounds? We find out through the senses of an escaped convict as he struggles to free himself from woul…
An Editor's Tales
Read by Arnold
These 'tales' describe a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While conta…
Favourite Chapters Collection 001
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A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderf…
Clergymen Of The Church Of England
Read by David Wales
This 1866 book was published in a time of great change in the Church of England. Trollope began as a High Church adherent and then worked h…
The Courtship of Susan Bell
Read by Simon Evers
Susan lives with her overbearing sister in a boarding house in Saratoga Springs run by their timid mother. A knock on the door brings an une…
The Small House at Allington (version 2)
Read by Nick Whitley
The Small House at Allington concerns the widowed Mrs.Dale, her daughters Isabella ("Bell") and Lilian ("Lily"), who liv…
Traveling Sketches
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In this small book, Anthony Trollope describes with his characteristic wit and satire the different types of travelers commonly encountered …
London Tradesmen
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This book is a series of sketches written by Anthony Trollope near the end of his life, reprinted and collected. Each sketch is an essay on …
Can You Forgive Her? (Version 2)
Read by Deon Gines
Can You Forgive Her was published over 2 years in serial form. It follows the life story of three women involved with courtship and marriag…
Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories
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In this collection of short stories by Anthony Trollope: A Viennese musician courts a much younger woman. A young man must choose between pu…
North America Vol. 1
Read by Celine Major
Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In 1861 he travelled through…
Phineas Finn (Version 2)
Read by Deon Gines
This novel tells the story of the lead character, Phineas Finn, including romances (with an eye to getting money) and British parliamentary …
How the "Mastiffs" Went to Iceland
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Anthony Trollope recounts his travel with the other passengers of the ship, Mastiff, to Iceland. He describes their journey by ship as well …
Clergymen of the Church of England (Version 2)
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Anthony Trollope describes with his characteristic wit the different types of clergymen commonly found in 19th century Britain. - Summary by…
The Eustace Diamonds (Version 2)
Read by Deon Gines
The Eustace Diamonds is the third in the Palliser Series first published in serial form and then as a novel in 1872. The story is set in Ir…
Phineas Redux (Version 2)
Read by Deon Gines
Phineas Finn (hero from an earlier novel in this series) returns to London from Scotland and reenters the political scene. After some hurdl…
Hunting Sketches
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Anthony Trollope describes with his characteristic wit the different types of hunters commonly found in 19th century Britain. - Summary by E…
The West Indies and the Spanish Main
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In The West Indies and the Spanish Main, Anthony Trollope recounts his experiences traveling around the area of what is now known as the Car…
North America Vol. 2
Read by Celine Major
Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In 1861-1862 he travelled th…