Each of the 48 novels of Anthony Trollope making up the set includes a specially commissioned introduction by an internationally known figure from the academic, literary or political world, including David Skilton, Dr. John Rae, Alice Thomas Ellis and Enoch Powell. The texts have been carefully chosen and prepared by David Skilton. The original illustrations, by the most loved illustrators of the time, including "Phiz" and Millais, are reproduced.
"Anthony Trollope (1815-82) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire, but he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and
conflicts of his day."
