Kept In The Dark

Anthony Trollope

Summary

Kept In The Dark by Anthony Trollope is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Published in eight monthly instalments in Good Words in 1882, this late novel tells the story Cecilia Holt, who ends her engagement to Sir Francis Geraldine because of his indifference to her. She goes abroad and meets Mr George Western, who has been jilted by a beautiful girl. The novel received a This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

Available since: 06/06/2026.

Print length: 247 pages.

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