Castle Richmond

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

'Castle Richmond' is set in Ireland during the famine years of 1845-1847, a time when Trollope was living in the rural south-west of the country as an official of the Post Office. It tells the story of the Fitzgeralds and their fight to survive a threat to possession of their family home, Castle Richmond. This edition follows the text of the 1973 reissue of the novel, and includes a map of the region in which the novel is set.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781544981383
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/27/2017
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) started his writing career while working in Ireland as a postal surveyor. Travelling around the country, Trollope gained knowledge of the country and its people which proved to be useful material for his first two novels, The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847) and The Kellys and the O'Kellys (1848). Trollope soon started writing fiercely, producing a series entitled Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Warden, the first in the series, was published in 1855. Barchester Towers (1857), the comic masterpiece, Doctor Thorne (1858), Framley Parsonage (1861), The Small House at Allington (1864) and The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) followed, portraying events in an imaginary English county of Barsetshire. In 1867, Trollope left the Post Office to run as a candidate for the Parliament. Having lost at the elections, Trollope focused on his writing. A satire from his later writing, The Way We Live Now (1875) is often viewed as Trollope's major work, however, his popularity and writing reputation diminished at the later stage of his life. Anthony Trollope died in London in 1882.