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Aaron Trow is a novel written by Anthony Trollope that was first published in 1861. The story follows the life of Aaron Trow, a young man from a wealthy family who becomes a thief and a murderer. Trow is eventually caught and sentenced to death, but he manages to escape and goes... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: Aaron Trow by Anthony Trollope

Aaron Trow, because of his murder of a man during a strike in England, is shipped off to a prison in Bermuda. He escapes and breaks into the house of a pastor and his daughter on a night when the daughter is alone. He demands food, drink and money. She gives him the first two... Read Full Overview

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. In 1867 Trollope left his position in the British Post Office... Read Full Overview

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I would wish to declare, at the beginning of this story, that I shall never regard that cluster of islets which we call Bermuda as the Fortunate Islands of the ancients. Do not let professional geographers take me up, and say that no one has so accounted them, and that the ancients... Read Full Overview

And then a day came in which an attempt was made by a large body of convicts, under his leadership, to get the better of the officers of the prison. It is hardly necessary to say that the attempt failed. Such attempts always fail. It failed on this occasion signally, and Trow,... Read Full Overview

Aaron Trow is a novel written by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1857. The book tells the story of Aaron Trow, a young man who is sent to prison for stealing from his employer. After serving his sentence, he becomes determined to get revenge on those who put him behind bars,... Read Full Overview

An English convict, Aaron Trow, was sent to the penal colony at Bermuda under a life sentence for murder. He escaped from prison and hid in a remote cave until search for him was abandoned. Driven by hunger, and fearing detection until he could find means to leave the island,... Read Full Overview

Aaron Trow, by Anthony Trollope is a short story of a convict who escapes from a prison on Bermuda. "I would wish to declare, at the beginning of this story, that I shall never regard that cluster of islets which we call Bermuda as the Fortunate Islands of the ancients. Do not... Read Full Overview