The Three Clerks - The World's Classics

Anthony Trollope, Graham Handley

Paperback (01 Jan 1990)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This is Trollipe's first important commentary on the contemporary scene. Set in the 1850s, it satirizes the recently instituted Civil Service examinations and financial corruption in dealings on the stock market.;The story of the three clerks and the three sisters who became their wives shows Trollope probing and exposing relationships with natural sympathy and insight long before "The Barchester Chronicles" and his political novels.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780192818294
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	01 Jan 1990
DEWEY:	823.8
DEWEY edition:	19
Weight:	327g
Height:	180mm
Width:	110mm
Spine width:	29mm