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The Bertrams - cover

The Bertrams

Anthony Trollope

Publisher: Caelwick Press

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The Bertrams 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: This is undoubtedly the age of humanity—as far, at least, as England is concerned. A man who beats his wife is shocking to us, and a colonel who cannot manage his soldiers without having them beaten is nearly equally so. We are not very fond of hanging; and some of us go so far as to recoil under an 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: 745 pages.

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