The Small House at Allington

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 2nd. With number line.* Date of Publication: 1991 (1864)* Publisher: Penguin Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. Some shelf wear to edges & corners. Light creases & dish to spine. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, some tanning to page edges and margins. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 665 pp. text. xli pp. appendices, notes & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- The fifth of The Barsetshire Novels. Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Although crushed by his faithlessness, Lily still believes she is bound to her unworthy former fiancé for life and therefore condemned to remain single after his betrayal. And when a more deserving suitor pays his addresses, she is unable to see past her feelings for Crosbie. Written when Trollope was at the height of his popularity, The Small House at Allington (1864) contains his most admired heroine in Lily Dale - a young woman of independent spirit who nonetheless longs to be loved - and is a moving dramatization of the ways in which personal dilemmas are affected by social pressures.* This is a VG copy with some age and shelf wear reducing it to GD++.* Thompson, Julian