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Grade 8 Up-Trollope's tale about Lily Dale, and her love for the calculating Adolphus Crosbie.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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Lily Dale is sublimely happy when she becomes engaged to Adolphus Crosbie, assistant secretary in a government agency. Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor fixedly stuck in the "Great House" at Allington. Crosbie spends a weekend away from Lily, and becomes attracted to Lady Alexandrina De Courcy, Who is from a noble Family. He asks for her hand in marriage, jilting he former love, Lily. John Eames, a young government clerk, has loved Lily Dale for years. He tries to get Lily to notice him after she gets jilted, but she still loves Crosbie, and maintains her love for him despite his treachery. Crosbie, however, soon finds that his noble bride brings no money into the marriage, but continues to spend it as though she had. His "noble" marriage is a debacle from start to finish. All Lily's friends urge her toward Eames, but Lily stubbornly clings to her hopeless love. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.


The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Novel by Anthony Trollope, published serially from September 1862 to April 1864 and in two volumes in 1864, the fifth of his six BARSETSHIRE NOVELS.

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Part Two Of Two Parts

THE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON introduces Trollope's most charming heroine, Lily Dale, onto the Barsetshire scene. Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an idiosyncratic bachelor entrenched in the "Great House" at Allington.

Dale's sister-in-law lives at the adjacent "Small House" with her two daughters, one of whom is Lily. Relations between the two houses and the romantic entanglements of the girls drive the story.

The Barsetshire Chronicles include THE WARDEN, BARCHESTER TOWERS, DOCTOR THORNE, FRAMLEY PARSONAGE, THE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON and THE LAST CHRONICLES OF BARSET.

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