Tales Of All Countries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789373407470)

Tales of all countries offers a rich exploration of social boundaries, personal responsibility, and emotional restraint across varied cultural landscapes. Through a series of compact narratives, the collection examines how individuals navigate obligations to family, class, and community while wrestling with internal longings. With sharp insight, the stories highlight the friction between personal desire and societal pressure, often set against vividly drawn foreign backdrops that emphasize distance not only geographical but emotional and moral. The stories observe characters as they negotiate roles shaped by expectations, often revealing the quiet struggles behind polite appearances. Whether through questions of romantic attachment, social mobility, or moral duty, each story investigates how location and circumstance shape decision-making and behavior. The collection resists dramatic resolutions, instead favoring moral ambiguity and the small, revealing choices that define lives. Trollope uses these tales to reflect on the universality of human conflict, regardless of national setting, suggesting that what changes between countries is less significant than what remains consistent in the human heart.

Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN-10: 9373407473
ISBN-13: 9789373407470
Publisher: Double 9 Books
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2025
Pages: 390
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.87d