Anthony Trollope Books in Order

Thady Macdermot struggles to hold together his family's failing Irish estate while his sister falls under the spell of a hated officer. The result is a bleak early novel about poverty, violence, and injustice.

This early Irish novel follows Lord Ballindine, his tenant Martin Kelly, and the scheming Barry Lynch through debt, courtship, and inheritance trouble. It is looser and more comic than Trollope's first book, but still edged with danger.

Set during the royalist rising in western France, this historical romance follows love and divided loyalties against the violence of revolution. It is Trollope at his most overtly historical.

Septimus Harding, gentle warden of a church charity, is forced to ask whether his comfortable income is morally defensible. A quiet dispute over reform becomes a piercing story about conscience, loyalty, and public pressure.

After a new bishop arrives in Barchester, church politics turn into open warfare. Mrs. Proudie, Mr. Slope, and several determined suitors make this one of Trollope's funniest and liveliest novels.

Doctor Thorne raises his niece Mary without revealing the secret of her birth, even as she and Frank Gresham fall in love. Money, inheritance, and family pride close in on them from every side.

Three young government clerks try to make their way through work, love, debt, and bad choices in London. Drawn from Trollope's own office experience, it mixes career satire with a coming-of-age story.

George Bertram and his friend Arthur Wilkinson move from youthful promise into disappointment, moral doubt, and difficult romantic choices. The novel ranges from London to the Levant and asks what a worthwhile life should look like.

Trollope's travel book surveys the Caribbean with a civil servant's eye for institutions and a novelist's taste for local detail. It mixes description, politics, and sharp opinions about colonial life.

A dryly funny travel tale about an Englishwoman touring Egypt and discovering that independence invites both comedy and chaos. It is part sketch, part social joke, and very briskly told.

Two cousins compete for Clara Desmond in famine-stricken Ireland, while family secrets threaten to upend the match entirely. Romance and the Irish famine sit side by side throughout the novel.

A short Continental tale set around an old French estate, where rank, reputation, and romantic hopes prove less secure than they first appear. Trollope uses the setting for quick social comedy.

A brief domestic courtship story in which affection, hesitation, and class expectations complicate a young woman's romantic prospects. Trollope keeps the scale small and the emotional pressure real.

A comic short story about patriotic relics, local pride, and the trouble caused when sentiment collides with common sense. Trollope keeps the joke brisk and the social observation sharp.

Escaped convict Aaron Trow stalks a young woman on Bermuda, turning the novella into a tense pursuit story. It is one of Trollope's darkest and most openly melodramatic pieces.

Young clergyman Mark Robarts enjoys fashionable friends until debt and a reckless financial guarantee put his future at risk. Around him, Trollope builds a rich picture of church life, patronage, and courtship.

A comic travel story in which a well-meaning Englishman runs into confusion, delay, and social awkwardness on his way through Suez. The fun comes from mishap, manners, and mounting discomfort.

After traveling through the United States and Canada during the Civil War era, Trollope writes with curiosity, skepticism, and plenty of detail. It is a broad travel portrait of politics, manners, and daily life.

A quiet short story about return, recognition, and the uneasy gap between who people were and who they have become. Trollope finds both tenderness and discomfort in the homecoming.

A village story about a clergyman's daughter facing love, duty, and the limits that a small community can impose. Trollope gives the domestic setting real weight without making it heavy.

After traveling through the United States and Canada during the Civil War era, Trollope writes with curiosity, skepticism, and plenty of detail. It is a broad travel portrait of politics, manners, and daily life.

A long-running inheritance dispute returns to court and forces Lady Mason to defend the story that secured her son's future. Trollope turns a legal case into a tense moral drama about guilt, reputation, and mercy.

A draper's shop collapses under weak management, dodgy bookkeeping, and reckless advertising. Trollope uses the business disaster to mock commercial ambition and lower-middle-class pretensions.

After traveling through the United States and Canada during the Civil War era, Trollope writes with curiosity, skepticism, and plenty of detail. It is a broad travel portrait of politics, manners, and daily life.

Rachel Ray falls for Luke Rowan, but her severe Evangelical sister distrusts both the man and the match. Trollope turns a courtship novel into a lively challenge to religious narrowness.

When the lively Mrs. General Talboys returns to England, her independence and impulsiveness stir up gossip and discomfort. Trollope treats her with wit, but also shows the cost of not fitting the expected mold.

A sharp comic tale about thrift taken too far, and the trouble that follows when money becomes more important than trust. Trollope keeps the premise simple and the social sting clear.

Lily Dale believes she has found her future with Adolphus Crosbie, until ambition tempts him elsewhere. Alongside her heartbreak, Trollope follows Johnny Eames as he stumbles toward adulthood.

Alice Vavasor cannot decide between a safe marriage and a dangerous passion, while Lady Glencora struggles with a marriage arranged for money and rank. It opens the Palliser series with politics, romance, and hard choices.

These essays draw on Trollope's lifelong enthusiasm for hunting, with sharp observations about horses, riders, countryside habits, and sporting culture. Even readers indifferent to foxhunting may enjoy the energy and detail.

After years spent caring for others, Margaret Mackenzie inherits money and tries to build a life of her own in Littlebath. Instead she finds suitors, schemers, and a social world eager to use her fortune.

Clara Amedroz faces a shrinking future, an entailed estate, and two very different suitors. It is a close, emotionally exact novel about love, prudence, and the pressure of money.

In Prague, Nina loves Anton Trendellsohn, but family hostility and religious prejudice turn the match into a crisis. Trollope strips the story down to a tense romance shaped by mistrust and social pressure.

Harry Clavering tries to build a career as an engineer after being cast aside by the woman he loves. When she reappears as the unhappily married Lady Ongar, old feelings become dangerous again.

In a village inn in the Vosges, Marie Bromar's future is pulled between family loyalty and the man she loves. It is a compact continental romance with a stubborn patriarch at its center.

Josiah Crawley, a proud and impoverished clergyman, is accused of stealing a cheque he cannot explain. The final Barsetshire novel brings back familiar faces for Trollope's darkest and most moving visit to Barchester.

Orphaned Linda lives under the stern rule of her fanatically religious aunt in Nuremberg, with marriage treated as duty rather than choice. It is one of Trollope's darkest and most constrained love stories.

Louis Trevelyan's jealousy over a harmless friendship poisons his marriage to Emily and destroys the peace around them. Trollope pairs the central tragedy with some of his best comic and domestic subplots.

An ambitious young Irishman enters Parliament and discovers that votes, principles, patronage, and romance are hard to separate. The book mixes reform politics with the question of how much success should cost.

Vicar Frank Fenwick takes up the cause of a disgraced woman and a man accused of murder, putting him at odds with local power. It is a serious, humane novel about forgiveness, religion, and village judgment.

Spendthrift Ralph Newton is heir to an estate he has already half mortgaged through bad choices. Around him, Trollope spins a story of family loyalty, class anxiety, and a shamelessly corrupt election.

Sir Harry's daughter Emily becomes entangled with their reckless cousin George, heir to the title but not to the estate. The novel turns inheritance and bad judgment into a tight domestic tragedy.

Widowed Lizzie Eustace insists a famous diamond necklace is hers, while lawyers, suitors, and thieves circle around the claim. Part mystery, part social comedy, it is the most self-contained of the Palliser books.

Trollope travels through the colonies with his usual mix of curiosity, practicality, and argument. He writes about politics, settlement, labor, landscape, and the prospects of colonial life.

Trollope travels through the colonies with his usual mix of curiosity, practicality, and argument. He writes about politics, settlement, labor, landscape, and the prospects of colonial life.

Young squatter Harry Heathcote runs a huge sheep station in Queensland and suddenly faces sabotage, fire, and old grudges. It is a brisk colonial Christmas story with real danger in the bush.

Lady Anna's legitimacy is disputed, her inheritance is contested, and her heart belongs to a tailor. Trollope builds a surprisingly intense story from the clash between rank, love, and a long legal battle.

Widowed and restless, Phineas Finn returns to London and back into politics, only to be caught in scandal and a murder trial. The sequel is darker, more political, and more dangerous than his first outing.

Augustus Melmotte dazzles London with money, speculation, and social ambition, even as his empire starts to rot from within. Trollope turns finance, marriage, and status into a sharp, sprawling satire.

Plantagenet Palliser reaches the top of politics by leading a shaky coalition government, while public life strains his marriage and household. Trollope keeps one eye on Cabinet weakness and the other on social disaster.

Part travelogue and part political survey, this book records Trollope's journey through southern Africa in the late 1870s. He writes about landscapes, settlements, local economies, and imperial questions.

Part travelogue and part political survey, this book records Trollope's journey through southern Africa in the late 1870s. He writes about landscapes, settlements, local economies, and imperial questions.

Senator Elias Gotobed visits rural England and says out loud what locals prefer not to hear. Around his observations, Trollope stages hunting scenes, inheritance worries, and Arabella Trefoil's determined husband-hunt.

Lucy Graham, a young woman working in the telegraph office, catches the attention of a wealthy suitor and his skeptical family. It is a neat late tale about class, work, and the risks of marrying up.

A short late tale of courtship and hesitation, with Trollope focusing on the gap between what people feel and what they dare to promise. The emotional scale is modest, but the social pressure is not.

This travel piece follows a journey to Iceland with Trollope's usual relish for rough conditions, fellow travellers, and practical observation. It is short, brisk, and full of movement.

When a dissipated marquis returns from Italy with a wife and child, the family's inheritance is thrown into doubt. Trollope turns legitimacy, title, and gossip into a tense aristocratic comedy.

A compact continental story in which status, courtship, and calculation pull against one another. Trollope keeps the setting elegant, but the social maneuvering is as sharp as ever.

Fred Neville, heir to an English earldom, falls in love with Kate O'Hara in Ireland and cannot reconcile desire with duty. The novel narrows into a tragic study of seduction, class, and consequences.

An aging Welsh squire cannot decide whether to leave his estate to his beloved niece or his weak male heir, Cousin Henry. Hesitation hardens into greed, guilt, and psychological pressure.

After making money in the Australian goldfields, John Caldigate returns home ready to marry, only to face a damaging claim about his past. Trollope builds a clever courtroom and marriage plot from one accusation.

After Lady Glencora's death, the Duke of Omnium must face the marriages and independence of his adult children. The last Palliser novel turns from Parliament to grief, family change, and letting go.

Trollope's life of Cicero follows the Roman statesman from youth into public rise, mixing history with strong opinions about politics, rhetoric, and duty. It reads like biography written by a working novelist.

Trollope follows Cicero through civil war, compromise, and death, while arguing vigorously about Roman politics and public character. It is biography with a clear narrative line and plenty of judgment.

Orphaned sisters Ayala and Lucy Dormer are sent to live with relatives, and Ayala's romantic imagination keeps colliding with ordinary marriage prospects. Trollope treats her whims tenderly, but never lets them float free of reality.

At Dr. Wortle's school, a scandal erupts when a married couple on the staff are discovered not to be legally married after all. Trollope uses the uproar to test charity, respectability, and moral certainty.

Cecilia Western hides a former engagement from her husband, and the secret corrodes their marriage once it comes out. Trollope keeps the plot simple and lets mistrust do the damage.

Lord Hampstead loves Marion Fay, a Quaker clerk's daughter who returns his feeling but refuses marriage because she is dying. Around them, Trollope sets another love match and a ruthless battle over rank and inheritance.

In the colony of Britannula, citizens are meant to retire at sixty-seven and die one year later in the name of progress. Trollope turns the grotesque idea into a dry, unsettling political satire.

Trollope looks back on his difficult childhood, his years in the Post Office, and the disciplined working habits behind his enormous output. It is blunt, funny, and unusually candid about how a Victorian novelist made a career.

This collection gathers Trollope's shorter fiction, from comic travel pieces and village sketches to darker tales of money, marriage, and reputation. It is a good way to see how much ground he could cover in small spaces.

John Scarborough hates the law of entail and spends his final years manipulating inheritance for the sake of his two sons, Mountjoy and Augustus. The novel is sharp, legalistic, and unusually cynical.

Set amid agrarian unrest in Ireland, this unfinished late novel follows a family battered by land agitation, politics, and divided loyalties. Even unfinished, it shows Trollope returning to Irish questions with anger and sympathy.

A seasonal short story in which courtship, family feeling, and uncomfortable truths meet beneath a festive surface. Trollope keeps the tone light, but never empty.

William Whittlestaff, shy, aging, and deeply lonely, finds himself drawn into one last hope of marriage. Trollope gives the late-life romance tenderness, awkwardness, and a sharp sense of social reality.

Mrs. Brown's panicked railway dash with a forgotten package turns a holiday trip into pure comic chaos. It is one of Trollope's funniest short pieces.

These stories range from uneasy social comedy to sharper studies of pride, money, and desperation. The title story, about a ruined inn and a fallen gentleman, gives the collection its darkest edge.

A varied selection of Trollope's shorter fiction, with domestic entanglements, comic misunderstandings, and sharp looks at everyday selfishness. The stories are brisk, observant, and often quietly unsettling.

This late collection brings together stories set in England and on the Continent, mixing romance, work, travel, and social awkwardness. It shows Trollope at his most agile in short form.

A collection of shorter European and Irish tales about courtship, family feeling, local loyalties, and sudden reversals. The range is wide, but the storytelling stays brisk and character-led.

This volume mixes one of Trollope's best-known short stories with other fiction and essays. Expect Cornish atmosphere, sharp character work, and the same practical eye he brought to his novels.