“The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.”

— Anthony Trollope, book Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 53

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English novelist (1815-1882) 1815–1882

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