The Kellys and the O'Kellys

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

The Kellys and the O'Kellys was Trollope's second novel, written when he was thirty-four. Like The Macdermots and Castle Richmond, it was the fruit of his experience as a postal official in Ireland. There is plenty of lovemaking, physical violence, sport, and whisky punch.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781410104229
Publisher:	Fredonia Books (NL)
Publication date:	11/06/2003
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	696
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.77(h) x 1.66(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.