Table of Contents

Introduction Note on the Text Chronology An Autobiography Trollope on Jane Austen 'On English Prose Fiction as a Rational Amusement' from Thackeray from 'The Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne from 'A Walk in the Wood' Appendix: passages omitted from the Manuscript Explanatory Notes Index

About the Author

Nicholas Shrimpton is the editor of Trollope's The Prime Minister (2011) and The Warden (2014) for Oxford World's Classics.

Reviews

`[An Autobiography] has now been edited by Nicholas Shrimpton, whose engaging introduction prepares the reader well for what is to come.'' TLS, 24 April 2015