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In a novel by this author, a penniless man nicknamed “Apollo” ironically receives a large raise only after breaking up with his rural fiancée to pursue the wealthy urbanite Alexandrina. In that novel by this author, Lily Dale is courted by Adolphus Crosbie while living in the title dower house with her mother. In this author’s longest novel, Augustus Melmotte devises a speculation scheme based on a railroad in Utah. The surgeon John Bold challenges the charitable income going to a cathedral precentor created by this author named Septimus Harding. A series (-5[1])of six novels set in a county created by this author (-5[1])include The Small (-5[1])House at Allington and The Warden. For 10 points, name this prolific (10[1])Victorian novelist who wrote The Way We Live Now and the Chronicles of Barsetshire. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: Anthony Trollope
<TH, British Literature>
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