This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " The Small House at Allington" by Anthony Trollope. " What a villain you are.. .a villain & a poor weak silly fool. She was too good for you." Engaged to the ambitious & self-serving Adolphus Crosbie Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Although crushed by his faithlessness Lily still believes she is bound to her unworthy former fiance for life & therefore condemned to remain single after his betrayal. & when a more deserving suitor pays his addresses she is unable to see past her feelings for Crosbie. Written when Trollope was at the height of his popularity " The Small House at Allington" contains his most admired heroine in Lily Dale
- a young woman of independent spirit who nonetheless longs to be loved
- & is a moving dramatization of the ways in which personal dilemmas are affected by social pressures. " The Penguin English Library"
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