ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on final products of Anthony Trollope's pen that includes some of the best work he ever wrote. Is He Popenjoy? includes in its ridiculous title one of the themes of the novel - the question of the legitimacy of the Marquis of Brotherton's son, fruit of his mysterious union with an Italian woman. Cousin Henry is a masterpiece of brevity and it too contains a figure of memorable psychological traits. Ayala's Angel is a long novel, far too long, about the love-affairs of several young persons. The Fixed Period, is the least characteristic of all Trollope's work, an excursion into futuristic fantasy, set on the antipodean island of Britannula in 1980. Marion Fay contains Trollope's most direct consideration of class-divisions and their effects on personal relationship. An Old Man's Love, the last completed work, is a miniature as fine in its way as its immediate predecessor.