ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about Anthony Trollope's longer novels including The Three Clerks, The Bertrams, Orley Farmm, The Claverings, He Knew He Was Right, and The Vicar of Bullhampton. The formula of the Lady Glencora Palliser novels, some public affairs and some love judiciously intermingled, is found more explicitly in The Three Clerks than in any of its predecessors. The contrast in tone is also more marked than in many of Anthony Trollope's other novels. The Bertrams is altogether a more sombre book, tracing the sad history of George Bertram and Caroline Waddington, 'a Juno rather than a Venus', a girl whose ideas of marriage include not only love but also status. The novel tells of George Bertram's career as well as of his love. Orley Farm received a very favourable reception on its appearance in 1862 and Trollope records that those of his friends competent to pass an opinion told him that it was the best book he had written.
