The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope

By Al R. Young

The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope is part of our family's "required reading" list. In it, Anthony Trollope masterfully spins a tale in which the choices of three young men, made at the headwaters of their lives, unfold into consequences that place them poles apart in after years.

This is vintage Trollope: Sumptuous characterization and mounting suspense with the inexorable weaving of consequences into the weft of everyday life.