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“Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.”

Dies Novel Century Quarters Towers Quarter Of A Century

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.”

Children Made Ends Party Novel Dinner Sugar Dinner Party Plums

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.”

Feels Made Passion Felt Interest Interesting Novel Successful Without Love

Author:Anthony Trollope

“When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.”

Knows Writing Ends Care Novel

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

Love Ends Happiness Literature Novel

Book:Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers

“To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.”

Left Walks Novel Meals Left Alone

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.”

Matter Stories Romance Life Is Novel Melancholy

Book:He Knew He was Right

Source: He Knew He was Right

“But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.”

Years Lasts Poor Novel Hero Thousand Ten Devil Clouds Titles Indifferent Theatrical

Book:Ayala's Angel

Source: Ayala's Angel

“It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.”

Writing May Art Literature Novel Reader Tests Grass Snakes

Book:Ralph the heir. With illustr. by F.A. Fraser

Source: Ralph the heir. With illustr. by F.A. Fraser

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