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Get an intimate look into the life and work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a pioneering force in the early womens rights movement, through her captivating memoirs. Alongside her best friend, Susan B. Anthony, she championed for womens rights for over five decades, though neither lived to see women gain the right to vote in 1920. This memoir, dedicated to Anthony, not only explores their tireless activism but also delves into controversial decisions, such as their opposition to a bill extending voting rights to black men while women were still disenfranchised. Elizabeths insightful reflections ...

En estas "Memorias de un cortesano de 1815" (segunda entrega de la segunda serie de Episodios Nacionales), Benito Pérez Galdós nos narra, en la figura de Juan de Pipaón, el ascenso social de este personaje, así como sus artimañas para conseguir estar en lo mas alto de la realeza. El tono sarcástico con que lo hace muestra la exquisitéz que sólo Pérez Galdós tiene para narrar historia. Así mismo, en el transcurso de la novela se nos narran hechos históricos, que como ya es harto conocido es una de las materias centrales en esta serie de Episodios Nacionales. Todos los sucesos ...

An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a local noble family Trollope's novella works through the consequences with typical affection and sensitivity. - Summary by Anthony Ogus

"Letters from Hell" is a didactic Christian fantasy novel, with a faint resemblance to C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters." Otto, the narrator, has died in the prime of life. Through letters, he relates the torments and regrets that are a consequence of the self-centered and dissipated life he led in the world. He also describes the fates of other lost souls who inhabit Hell. (In this work, Hell is not the place of eternal torment, but the "holding area" until the final judgment.)There is also a preface written by George MacDonald. - Summary by TriciaG

This 1866 book was published in a time of great change in the Church of England. Trollope began as a High Church adherent and then worked his way to a Broad Church stance, a theological liberalism (toleration of belief and interpretation, regard for the individual conscience, a willingness to tolerate the ambiguity of finding truth in the extremes as well as the middle). This book deals with a crisis of faith and a crisis of structural form in the Victorian Church of England. It possesses all the interesting attributes of the novelist’s style. Note on the final chapter: John William Colenso ...

This is a massive effort, taking place in England and the Middle East, with a cast of thousands... Well, not thousands, fortunately, but certainly a great many. There are three Bertrams present: Sir Lionel, his son George (our hero), and the wealthy uncle. The primary story involves the joining of two couples (following some rocky periods), and the disposal of the uncle's fortune. The more amusing bits focus on peripheral characters in the social settings of a fictional town and in travel on board ship or touring Egypt. Trollope digresses from time to time to lecture us on religion, politics, ...

Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the 2nd novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It follows on from The Warden, set some years later, with some of the same characters. Among other things it satirises the then raging antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents. Trollope began writing this book in 1855. He wrote constantly, and made himself a writing-desk so he could continue writing while travelling by train. "Pray know that when a man begins writing a book he never gives over," he wrote in a letter during this ...