The Small House at Allington (version 2) - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Anthony Trollope,
1 / 60The Squire of Allington
- 1. The Squire of Allington
- 2. The Two Pearls of Allington
- 3. The Widow Dale of Allington
- 4. Mrs. Roper's Boarding-House
- 5. About L.D.
- 6. Beautiful Days
- 7. The Beginning of Troubles
- 8. It Cannot Be
- 9. Mrs. Dale's Little Party
- 10. Mrs. Lupex and Amelia Roper
- 11. Social Life
- 12. Lilian Dale Becomes a Butterfly
- 13. A Visit to Guestwick
- 14. John Eames Takes a Walk
- 15. The Last Day
- 16. Mr. Crosbie Meets an Old Clergyman on His Way to Courcy Castle
- 17. Courcy Castle
- 18. Lily Dale's First Love-Letter
- 19. The Squire Makes a Visit to the Small House
- 20. Dr. Crofts
- 21. John Eames Encounters Two Adventures and Displays Great Courage in Both
- 22. Lord De Guest at Home
- 23. Mr. Plantaganet Palliser
- 24. A Mother-In-Law and a Father-In-Law
- 25. Adolphus Crosbie Spends an Evening at His Club
- 26. Lord De Courcy in the Bosom of His Family
- 27. "On My Honour, I Do Not Understand It"
- 28. The Board
- 29. John Eames Returns to Burton Crescent
- 30. Is It From Him?
- 31. The Wounded Fawn
- 32. Pawkins's in Jermyn Street
- 33. The Time Will Come
- 34. The Combat
- 35. Vae Victis
- 36. "See the Conquering Hero Comes"
- 37. An Old Man's Complaint
- 38. Doctor Crofts is Called in.
- 39. Doctor Crofts is Turned Out
- 40. Preparations for the Wedding
- 41. Domestic Troubles
- 42. Lily's Bedside
- 43. Fie Fie
- 44. Valentine's Day at Allington
- 45. Valentine's Day in London
- 46. John Eames at His Office
- 47. The New Private Secretary
- 48. Nemesis
- 49. Preparations for Going
- 50. Mrs. Dale is Thankful for a Good Thing
- 51. John Eames Does Things Which He Ought Not to Have Done
- 52. The First Visit to the Guestwick Bridge
- 53. Loquitur Hopkins
- 54. The Second Visit to the Guestwick Bridge
- 55. Not Very Fie Fie After All
- 56. Showing How Mr. Crosbie Became Again a Happy Man
- 57. Lilian Dale Vanquishes Her Mother
- 58. The Fate of the Small House
- 59. John Eames Becomes a Man
- 60. Conclusion
About
The Small House at Allington concerns the widowed Mrs.Dale, her daughters Isabella ("Bell") and Lilian ("Lily"), who live in the "Small House", and their suitors. The bachelor Squire of Allington (Christopher Dale), who lives in the Great House, has allocated the Small House, rent free, to his widowed sister-in-law and her daughters.
This is the fifth of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. As with all of Trollope's novels, this one also contains many sub-plots and numerous minor characters. Plantagenet Palliiser, of Trollope’s Palliiser series of novels makes his first appearance, as he contemplates a dalliance with Griselda Grantly, the now-married Lady Dumbello, daughter of the Archdeacon introduced earlier in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.
Another key sub-plot involves the goings-on at protagonist John Eames' London boarding house where the landlady's worldly and attractive daughter (Miss Amelia Roper) attempts to ensnare Eames into a socially downwardly-mobile marriage, and where Eames' fellow boarder and co-worker gets drawn into a love triangle with the wife of an unhappily married theatrical couple. In these London scenes at the clerks' office and the Roper boarding house, we see Dickensian echoes.
As with so many of Trollope's novels, here Trollope explores issues of emotional and generational power struggles, adultery, temptation, jilting lovers, marriage proposal refusals, and the consequences of indecision. Trollope's scene of the bull attack placed mid-way through the novel is a tour-de-force moment not to be missed by any reader interested in the art of the Victorian novel.
(Edited by N K Whitley from the Wikipedia entry for the novel which - spoiler alert – contains a much more detailed account of the main plot-lines.)
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