The Chronicles of Barsetshire. Book 4. The Small House at Allington

«The Small House at Allington» — the fifth book of the «Chronicles». Here are two heroines, the daughters of a poor widow, — one is sensible, the other is sensitive. A bit reminiscent of a Jane Austen novel? Well, the resemblance is not coincidental. As for the hero, by the author's own admission, there is none in the book, or rather, this role is distributed among several young men, in greater or lesser heroic degrees. In one of them, the awkward dreamy young man Johnny Imse, Trollope reflected himself from the times when he worked as a minor clerk in government service and everyone regarded him as a complete idiot. Allington is quite far from Barchester, and characters from other «Chronicles» appear infrequently in the novel, however, several familiar characters will be seen by the reader. Furthermore, for the first time here, Plantagenet Palliser will appear — the hero of another famous Trollope cycle.

The novel is printed with a complete set of classic illustrations by the famous Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, which accompanied the first edition of «The Small House at Allington» in Cornhill Magazine.