Trollope is actually jolly good, in spite of the hearty
philistinism of his braying groupies. He understood the English
middle classes, in their extraordinary ordinariness, better than
most. I never think he is quite in the same league as Dickens,
George Eliot, and one book by Thackeray. Victoria Glendinning is in
love with him, and is just about the best literary biographer in
the world at the height of her powers. She has sent me back to the
oeuvre, which is gratifyingly huge (part of the attraction for
Trollopians: they never need read anything else), and persuaded me
that he is good on women, and no more anti-Semitic than his John
Bull contemporaries. Review by Philip Howard (Kirkus UK)
'Glendinning succeeds, as no biographer has done before, in bringing him to life on the page-Here, at last, is an Anthony Trollope whom one can know as a man-The effect is startlingly impressive.' Jonathan Raban, Independent on Sunday'Enormously enjoyable' John Mortimer, Books of the Year, Sunday Times
'Full of fascinating knowledge about the Victorian age in England-A great story superbly told.' Augustine Martin, Irish Times'As compelling readable as any of Anthony's own novels.' Ruth Rendell, Sunday Express'Altogether excellent' Anita Brookner, Spectator
'The finest of several recent lives of Trollope-smoothly written, splendidly readable.' Julian Symons, Books of the Year, Sunday Times'I came to this biography of Trollope with unreasonably high expectations. They were amply fulfilled
-A work as readable, richly shifting and well-shaped as a good novel-compendiously well-informed.' Caroline Moore, The Times'A brilliant and subtle interweaving of the man and the work; wonderful.' Joanna Trollope, Books of the Year, Daily Telegraph
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