The Three Clerks
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Book Overview
Set in the 1850s, The Three Clerks exposes and probes the relationships between three clerks and the three sisters who became their wives. At the same time it satirizes the Civil Service examinations... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0486240991
ISBN13:9780486240992
Release Date:January 1981
Publisher:Dover Publications
Length:497 Pages
Weight:1.18 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
another great Trollope
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
If you like Jane Austen, you'll like Anthony Trollope, and this one is hard to find at libraries--though one of the author's own favorites. I think it was John Updike who said he envied Trollope his way of putting real life "under glass" to convey every detail of his characters and their world.
9 to 5 Victorian Style
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Trollope covers broad range of life in this wonderfully amusing tale of three very diverse clerks and the career paths they take in Victorian England. He depicts them with depth and sympathy and you can't help feeling sorry for the plights their own follies bring upon them. Trollope knew the life he wrote about from his own eventful and long remembered career as a postal worker! Romance and vivid scene painting combine with social comentary to make Three Clerks a classic worth reading for pleasure as well as for the cultural history education it offers.
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