The American Senator (Annotated)

The American Senator (1877) is one of Anthony Trollope's most incisive studies of English provincial society, set amid the hunting fields and drawing rooms of Dillsborough. Its plot interweaves courtship, property, class ambition, and moral self-deception, while the visiting American senator, Elias Gotobed, serves as an outsider whose blunt democratic judgments expose the absurdities and inequitie...