The Landleaguers
by Anthony Trollope
1883
ISBN/ASIN: B00NY9EAZK
Number of pages: 124
Description:
The Landleaguers were Irish farmers who resisted eviction sometimes through death threats and field flooding. They also practiced ostracism, or Boycotting, after the name of its first victim. This is an unfinished novel, with only forty nine of the 60 intended chapters finished before Trollope's death. At the end of the book, Trollope's son recounts what he knows of his father's intentions for several of the characters.
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