SOURCE: Introduction to Tales of All Countries: First Series, Arno Press, 1981, pp. i-viii.
In the following essay, Stone argues that the realism and anti-romanticism of the stories in the first series of Tales of All Countries paradoxically reflect Trollope's "own deeply romantic nature. That reality will not conform to one's fanciful or youthful impressions is a source of both comedy and pathos for Trollope."
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