The Claverings

Anthony Trollope

Synopsis

Harry Clavering is an able, ambitious, and attractive young man, son of a country vicar and cousin to a baronet. His love for the baronet's beautiful sister-in-law is at first reciprocated, but then rebuffed as her own ambitions incline her towards marrying a wealthy but personally repellent earl. Harry licks his wounds, and seeks to make his own fortune by training for a career as a civil engineer. While in the home of his new patrons, he meets the daughter of the head of his firm, a new love flourishes, and they become engaged. But the earl dies, and the widow, Harry's first love, is now free—and also wealthy. Unaware of his new attachment, she seeks help from Harry, wondering whether the spark between them can be rekindled. It now transpires that Harry is also "fickle, vain, easily led, and almost as easily led to evil as to good." Like Trollope's Phineas Finn , The Claverings includes strong and fully realized female characters. Lady Julia Ongar is the outstanding example here, the seemingly mercenary femme fatale whose conflicting choices, hopes, and spiritual struggles are so acutely portrayed that they prevent her from simply being a stereotypical predator. Written between the last two Barchester books, The Claverings is among the very few other of Trollope's works set in Barsetshire. The setting remains a subtle touch here: Harry's clergyman father is annoyed by Bishop Proudie, the notorious prelate of the later Barchester series. The Trollope scholar Michael Sadleir grouped The Claverings , along with Doctor Thorne and Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite , as Trollope's "three faultless books." Of The Claverings itself, he found it "as surely conceived as any book [Trollope] ever wrote," marked by "qualities of sure-footed subtlety," especially in the many and varied acute social observations it contains—from the most intimate and intense private dramas, to more awkward and even amusing public encounters. Like many of Trollope's books, The Claverings is "not only readable, but perpetually re-readable."

Disponible depuis: 06/06/2026.

Longueur d'impression: 710 pages.

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