Three Clerks

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Narrator
David Hobbs
Series
The world's classics
Length
24 hours
Publisher
Calibre Audio
Catalogue #
16273
Categories
Classic Fiction
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Synopsis

The Three Clerks is Trollope's first important and incisive commentary on the contemporary scene. Set in the 1850s, it satirizes the recently instituted Civil Service examinations and financial corruption in dealings on the stock market. The story of the three clerks and the three sisters who become their wives shows Trollope probing and exposing relationships with natural sympathy and insight. The novel is imbued with autobiographical warmth and immediacy, the ironic appraisal of politics and society deftly balanced by romantic and domestic pathos and tribulation.

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