If we agree that the truth is never only what we want to believe,the urgent arguments of desire
still have the body’s weight behind them, the weight of the bully who tells youwhat to say and then makes sure you mean it.
In this biography, N. John Hall concentrates on the “facts” of Anthony Trollope’s career by presenting the effects of the novelist’s great creative energy and by recording the results of his multiple vocations and avocations. The Trollope...
