Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

EAN : 9791043141348

TROLLOPE ANTHONY

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EAN : 9791043141348

Paru le : 13 mars 2026

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Détails

EAN13 : 9791043141348
Réf. éditeur : 448501
Date Parution : 13 mars 2026
Disponibilite : Disponible
Barème de remise : NS
Nombre de pages : 142
Format : H:210 mm L:148 mm E:8 mm
Poids : 194gr

Résumé

Résumé : Harry Heathcote is a young immigrant "squatter," farming thousands of acres in Queensland, Australia. His strong personality wins the loyalty of friends and family. But that same imperious nature makes him enemies, too, who would like nothing more than to see him ruined. As Christmas approaches, the conditions for his ruin arise naturally in the intense, scorching heat of a southern hemisphere summer. His enemies, however, spot an opportunity to give nature a helping hand. Their sharp conflict contrasts with a muted romantic subplot—but even here, Heathcote's tone and temper complicate the path of true love.An invitation to produce a "Christmas story" came while Anthony Trollope was writing The Way We Live Now. Harry Heathcote was the result, fulfilling the brief, but without the "humbug" that Trollope believed marred too much writing in that genre.Harry Heathcote is one of Trollope's shorter novels, but still displays his sharp psychological insight into his leading characters, and his capacity to produce natural dialog. It also draws on his first-hand knowledge of his son's experience of farming in Australia, observed during Trollope's extended tour of the Antipodes in 1871.
Biographie : Anthony Trollope was the son of barrister Thomas Anthony Trollope and the novelist and travel writer Frances Milton Trollope. Though a clever and well-educated man and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, Thomas Trollope failed at the Bar due to his bad temper. Ventures into farming proved unprofitable, and he did not receive an expected inheritance when an elderly childless uncle remarried and had children. Thomas Trollope was the son of Rev. (Thomas) Anthony Trollope, rector of Cottered, Hertfordshire, himself the sixth son of Sir Thomas Trollope, 4th Baronet. The baronetcy later came to descendants of Anthony Trollope's second son, Frederic. As a son of landed gentry, Thomas Trollope wanted his sons to be raised as gentlemen and to attend Oxford or Cambridge. Anthony Trollope suffered much misery in his boyhood owing to the disparity between the privileged background of his parents and their comparatively small means.