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![]() ![]() has his hands the fullest of work”.įired by the same creed is Steven Amarnick, editor of the new edition of Trollope's The Duke's Children, the final novel in his hugely accomplished six-part Palliser series. Producing words and organising a better postal service in Britain and Ireland were the twin tasks that drove a man who believed, like his beloved character Plantagenet Palliser, that “the happiest man is he who. Although we could not be further from James Joyce's "scrupulous meanness", it would be wrong to assume that such vast quantity meant poor quality. In a long career that began and closed with Irish works – The Macdermots of Ballycloran, in 1847, and the unfinished The Landleaguers, in 1883 – Trollope wrote a half-century of novels and as many short stories. For most of his working life he was hauled out of bed at 5am by his servant, groom and general factotum, Barney McIntyre, so that he could get in three hours of writing before setting off for his “real” job, as a post-office administrator. ![]() He proudly paraded the fact that he weighed his books in pounds, shillings and pence. In his posthumously published autobiography Anthony Trollope accelerated the decline in his once mighty reputation by being upfront about being an immensely productive commercial novelist. ![]()
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