Product Description

Trollope relates his life from the influence of his childhood and mother, to the time he spent in the Post Office and the motivation behind his literary career.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #414113 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Customer Reviews

A Victorian Life
Redolent of the Victorian Age, and beautifully written. Some of the amusement comes precisely from his occasional pedantic preaching of Victorian virtues. He is capable of being self-critical. If elsewhere he is self-satisfied, he has much to be self-satisfied about. A man who from the most unpromising beginning came to live life to the full.

Charming
After having read the six Barsetshire-novels and the six Palliser-novels I was very eager to read the autobiography of the man who had written all those wonderful books and given me so many hours of happy entertainment (and lots of food for thought as well). And I'm happy to say that I enjoyed this book about himself as much as any book Trollope wrote about his fictional characters!

It's all very down-to-earth and easy-going, and although Trollope perhaps never explicitly talks about his inner life (he says so himself: 'It will not, I trust, be supposed by any reader that I have intended in this so-called autobiography to give a record of my inner life. No man ever did so truly, and no man ever will.') you do get a very good 'feel' of what kind of man he was, and a wonderful picture of what life (for certain classes) was like in the Victorian age.

A must-read for all Trollope-lovers, and a worthwhile read even if you've never read anything else by him.