Short Fiction

This collection gathers the short fiction of Anthony Trollope, the master Victorian novelist better known for his long Barsetshire and Palliser series. Freed from the scale of the three-volume novel, Trollope uses these shorter tales to travel more widely, setting stories in the hotels and railways of Europe, the American frontier, and the English countryside, and to try his hand at comedy, romance, and quiet irony. The same shrewd eye for character and the same warm, worldly good sense that fill his novels are here concentrated into brief, satisfying forms. For readers who love his longer work, the stories offer a fresh and lighter pleasure. This free PDF and EPUB presents the collected short fiction.