Volume 40, Number 7 · April 8, 1993
Trollope's Comédie Humaine
By John Gross
Anthony Trollope
by Victoria Glendinning
Knopf, 551 pp., $30.00
It is not the kind of thing you could prove by statistics, but I suspect that nowadays Trollope is the most genuinely popular of the great Victorian novelists. Dickens or George Eliot rate higher, of course, and loom larger as college texts; but when people want to read something for pleasure, it is the author of Barchester Towers and The Way We Live Now that they are more likely to turn to. Or such is my impression.
Review, 4074 words
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