The Claverings (Summarized Edition)

The Claverings examines the traffic between love, money, and reputation through Harry Clavering's wavering between his loyal fiancée, Florence Burton, and Julia Brabazon—now the widowed and rumor-haunted Lady Ongar, who once married for wealth. Shuttling from a decaying country house to London's counting rooms, Trollope offers a cool, exact social realism. An omniscient, wry narrator probes motive...