The Claverings (Annotated)

The Claverings (1867) is one of Anthony Trollope's incisive studies of love, ambition, and moral compromise within the Victorian social order. Centered on Harry Clavering, whose engagement to the steadfast Florence Burton is threatened by the reappearance of the brilliant and widowed Lady Ongar, the novel examines desire as both private emotion and social transaction. Written in Trollope's charact...