London Tradesmen

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jan 28, 2024

In Category - Essays & Short Works

Authors: Anthony Trollope In Year : 1927

Book Language: English

Audiobook: London Tradesmen

Foreword
The Tailor
The Chemist
The Butcher
The Plumber
The Horsedealer
The Publican
The Fishmonger
The Greengrocer
The Wine Merchant
The Coal Merchant
The Haberdasher

This book is a series of sketches written by Anthony Trollope near the end of his life, reprinted and collected. Each sketch is an essay on a particular type of London tradesman. This series reflects Trollope's earlier protests in The Way We Live Now against the new, commercialized England of the 1870s. The essays all mourn the replacement of the small individual shopkeeper of the past with advertisers, department stores, and door-to-door salesmen. - Summary by Elsie Selwyn