The Two Heroines of Plumplington and Other Stories

This collection gathers late short fiction by Trollope, headed by a Barsetshire Christmas tale. In Plumplington, banker's daughter Emily Greenmantle and brewer's daughter Polly Peppercorn each mean to marry a man their father thinks beneath them; the rector engineers a thaw. Other pieces turn on an Austrian innkeeper raising prices, a Cornish girl working a cove, an escaped convict, travel mishaps in Spain, a Vienna courtship, and a Christmas journey delayed by a swell on the face. The book is a miscellaneous story volume of courtship and incident, not a Barset novel in full.

Quarter bound in red cloth, pink paper boards printed with a pattern in grey by Sally Lou Smith. Green endleaves. Dark red slipcase.