Anthony Trollope's heartwarming tales of Christmas presented in a beautiful hardcover edition
perfect for giving as a gift.Christmas at Thompson Hall collects the best Christmas tales of
Anthony Trollope the enormously popular author of the Chronicles of Barsetshire and Palliser
series of novels. Mostly set in Trollope's imaginary county of Barsetshire the stories depict
the festive period with all Trollope's trademark zest humour and cheerfulness and offer rich
and psychologically acute portrayals of the middle class and gentry of Victorian England at
Christmas time.Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was born in London to a bankrupt barrister father
and a mother who as a well-known writer supported the family. Trollope enjoyed considerable
acclaim both as a novelist and as a senior civil servant in the British Postal Service. He
published more than forty novels and many short stories that are regarded by some as among the
greatest of nineteenth-century fiction.
