![]() ![]() ![]() Please to think if you can furbish up any of these besides a novel. “You must have tossed a good deal about the world,” Thackeray wrote to Trollope, “and have countless sketches in your memory and your portfolio. It came in a letter from William Makepeace Thackeray who was at the time editor of the Cornhill magazine. Still, as one of his modern editors notes, only rarely in his short stories does he seem to be “deliberately cramping his hand to work on a smaller canvas.” In his autobiography, Trollope identifies a moment of encouragement to produce short stories. He was more at home in his novels, living in his imagination with his characters who were then patiently brought to life on the page. In spite of this prodigious output, Trollope could struggle with the short story form. The appearance of his first published short story coincided with his rise to prominence as a novelist with the popularity of Framley Parsonage. ![]() Trollope was an energetic and productive writer in an energetic and productive age, and that in addition to his regular job as a highly placed civil servant in the postal service. ![]() Most of the many novels by Anthony Trollope share a common they are long books. ![]()
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