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The Three Clerks

The Three Clerks

Delany, Paul
Trollope, Anthony

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1550586262
ISBN13: 9781550586268
Publisher: Els Editions
Published: Aug 12 2019
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.83
Height: 0.97 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Among Trollope's novels, The Three Clerks is unusual for being published in two versions. As Paul Delany tells us in his introduction to the novel, Trollope chose to make substantial cuts to the three-volume first edition to reduce production costs for a cheap edition. He marked about 13,700 words for deletion-about six percent of the text. The shortened Three Clerks is a significant record of Trollope's self-criticism, which is why this edition restores his cuts in italics. He had to decide which parts of his text were disposable and which essential; or even just which parts he liked more than others. In his Autobiography he boasted that few writers had written more words than him; the present edition shows his performance at the opposite task, of writing fewer.

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