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Cornered: Anthony Trollope. (new headstone in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19930320
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The nineteenth-century British realist is being rediscovered in 1993. Besides the Westminster monument, Penguin Books is reissuing all of his works. Trollope is also the subject of an acclaimed biography by Victoria Glendinning, and his memorabilia are on display in the British Library.

HAVE you ever read the novels of Anthony Trollope?" inquired Nathaniel Hawthorne. "They precisely suit my taste--solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and the inspiration of ale, and just about as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, ...

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