While Dublin is gripped by the state trials of Daniel O’Connell in 1844, two courtships run side by side in the west of Ireland. Martin Kelly, a tenant farmer’s son, woos the heiress Anty Lynch against her brutal brother Barry, and his landlord Lord Ballindine struggles to keep his engagement to Fanny Wyndham.
Trollope’s warm, humorous early novel of Irish life, a lighter companion to his later work. Download the free EPUB.