ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Anthony Trollope's collections of short stories - Tales of All Countries (1861) and its Second Series (1863), Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories (1867), An Editor's Tales (1870) and Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices: and Other Stories (1882). Many of these are occasional in the sense that their origins seem traceable to incidents in Trollope's own life, not least to his travels. Many are set in foreign locations. The Caesar is a condensation of the ten books of the De Bello Gallico and the De Bello Civili, mainly in the form of simple, fluent summary but occasionally, particularly with speeches, giving the original in extenso. The West Indies and the Spanish Main is a different matter, though it is hardly 'the best book that has come from [Trollope's] pen'. It covers his visit to Jamaica, Cuba, British Guiana, the other ex-British Caribbean islands, Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
