SOURCE: Introduction to Anthony Trollope: The Complete Shorter Fiction, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1992, pp. ix-xiii.
In the following essay, Thompson observes that, although the short story form was not amenable to Trollope's talents as a writer, his tales are nevertheless "lucid, sinewy exercises in their chosen form."
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