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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19911215
Author:Robert M. Adams

TROLLOPE A Biography By N. John Hall Oxford. 581 pp. $35

AMONG the English novelists of the 19th century - a most multifarious and variegated breed - hardly any has been less investigated by the literary biographers than Anthony Trollope. Though there are many secondary reasons for this neglect, such as a less than agile style and a morality that doesn't often transcend the conventional, the prime difficulty has been Trollope's appalling record of frantic literary and business activity. He did so many different things and did them so continually that it's hard to believe that he ...

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