CASTLE RICHMOND

BY

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALGAR THOROLD

LONDON & NEW YORK: MCMVI






INTRODUCTION





"Castle Richmond" was written in 1861, long after Trollope had left
Ireland. The characterization is weak, and the plot, although the
author himself thought well of it, mechanical.

The value of the story is rather documentary than literary. It
contains several graphic scenes descriptive of the great Irish
famine. Trollope observed carefully, and on the whole impartially,
though his powers of discrimination were not quite fine enough to
make him an ideal annalist.