Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories

Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories

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Anthony Trollope’s heartwarming tales of Christmas, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift.Christmas at Thompson Hall collects the best Christmas tales of Anthony Trollope, the enormously popular author of the Chronicles of Barsetshire and Palliser series of novels. Mostly set in Trollope’s imaginary county of Barsetshire, the stories depict the festive period with all Trollope’s trademark zest, humour, and cheerfulness, and offer rich and psychologically acute portrayals of the middle class and gentry of Victorian England at Christmas time.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 British Postal Service. 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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Weight0.28 kg
Dimensions2.6 × 12.2 × 18.8 cm
Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0143122479

About The Author

Anthony Trollope (1815-82) was one of the most widely enjoyed and prolific novelists of the nineteenth century. His books include the great Chronicles of Barsetshire, of which Barchester Towers is the second volume. Trollope worked for the Post Office for much of his adult life, combining postal and literary business as he travelled around the British Empire. He has been credited with the creation of the distinctive British pillar box.

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